Browsing: Indo-Pacific

On September 15, 2021, Australia abandoned a $90-billion program to build French-designed conventional diesel-electric submarines. Instead, Australia would embark on…

You are walking through an ethno-village in rural Kyrgyzstan. On the right is a string of cultural zones organized by…

The Centrist Reform Alliance (CRA), once thought to pose a significant threat to Takaichi Sanae’s hold on power, came to…

On September 16, 2025, South Korea’s Lee Jae-myung administration formally adopted Arctic shipping development as a national policy. The Ministry…

What populist nationalists find most offensive about liberal democracy is the rule of law. The idea that there should be…

Asia’s democratic trajectory is no longer defined by the binary struggle between democracy and authoritarianism. Instead, the real contest is…

North Korea’s state media confirmed Monday that a joint firepower drill by artillery and missile units across the Korean People’s…

China’s postponement of its Chang’e 7 lunar mission on August 23 came with a curt explanation from the China Manned…

Varying degrees of dependence – and interdependence – dictate how Thailand approaches its neighbors. Attention naturally fixates on adjacent states,…

Myanmar’s military-backed government is ramping up the campaign against its rogue permanent representative to the United Nations, ahead of an…