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On the 50th anniversary of Malaysia’s New Economic Policy, the middle class it famously built may be collapsing. Will its goal of national unity collapse with it?

It was almost inevitable that fractures would emerge within the Pacific Islands Forum.

Japan has been fixated on the Olympic Movement since the event began. Why?

“China is no place for the Olympics, given that extreme human rights abuses in the country clash with principles enshrined in the Olympic Charter.”

The Mongolian People’s Party now controls the executive and the legislature, but now must contend with COVID-19 and demands to level the political playing field.

Russia will never match U.S. or Chinese influence in the region, but it has proven adept at getting a decent return for its minimal investments.

As the CCP celebrates its centennial, how close is the party of Xi Jinping to its founding vision?

Seventy-five years after the U.S. began testing nuclear weapons in the Pacific, the Marshall Islands stand at a new crossroads.

“There may be claims of reformers having been [there] in pre-Narasimha Rao governments, but if there were any, they hid themselves very well.”

How governments imagine the future – including the future of war – shapes their responses and planning in the present.

The fate of the Afghan government following the Soviet withdrawal is more complex than sometimes assumed. That has lessons for Kabul today.

Beijing is establishing a police state in Hong Kong – even if it risks destroying the international city.