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Despite COVID-19 and a number of security initiatives, piracy, kidnapping, and terrorist movements continue in the Sulu Sea.

The Ardern government is using deliberately ambiguous tactics to deter an increasingly aggressive partner while (so far) avoiding punishment.

A loss of autonomy. A months-long security crackdown. Now, a pandemic. It’s been a rough year in Kashmir.

How speaking out fits into Vietnam’s political system and the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

The temporary blue skies brought by the COVID-19 slowdown have inspired soul-searching over Pakistan’s current development path.

In 2019, Kazakhstan was catapulted into political transition. 2020 has yielded its own shocking changes.

How an outlawed martial arts group facilitated a critical shift in Timor-Leste’s political scene.

Is relief from China the answer to the debt woes of COVID-19?

30 years after a youth-led revolution overturned Soviet rule, young Mongols are again at the forefront of change in the country.

Untangling the political machinations that collapsed the Alliance of Hope from within.

Narendra Modi’s second term has coincided with the implementation of his party’s Hindu nationalist agenda. What is driving this?