The Marine Corps went all in when the Pentagon identified China as the prime national- security challenge facing the U.S. To meet it, the Marines in 2020 proclaimed a thoroughgoin ...
Russia has managed to divert most oil exports from Europe to India and China, getting around sanctions, says a top official
Europe's share of Russian oil and petroleum exports has fallen to 4% to 5% from nearly half.
China’s economy had a miserable year. 2024 might be even worse
The Chinese economy was expected to recover quickly in 2023 and resume its role as the undisputed engine of global growth. Instead, it stalled to the point where it’s being called a “drag” on world ...
China Wants to Move Ahead, but Xi Jinping Is Looking to the Past
China’s leader is restoring aspects of Mao Zedong’s rule, forcing people to confront a more uncertain future rooted in China’s past.
In the hawk-dove ornithology of China policy, consider the drongo
Those of us who spend our lives thinking about China strategy are routinely referred to as either “hawks” or “doves”, a crude distinction meant to identify us as either rabidly anti- or slavishly ...
On the new front line of Myanmar’s civil war, resistance fighters are gaining ground
In Myanmar, photojournalist Siegfried Modola captured the battle for the town of Loikaw and the toll the conflict has taken on the Asian nation ...
Myanmar-based gangs force trafficking victims to scam Americans online
CNN’s Ivan Watson reports on how criminal gangs based in Myanmar are running scam centers that have conned millions of dollars from Americans. As he found out, they’re forcing human trafficking ...
This could be the beginning of the end for the military regime in Myanmar
The Burmese junta wants peace at any cost. In June, the Myanmar military government held peace talks with rebel groups brokered by China. Since then, the internal fighting has only grown more intense ...
Philippines emerges as centre of Asia online shopping scams
The journalist’s saga highlights a bitter experience for a growing number of people in the Philippines, which clocked the highest scam rate for online shoppers across nearly a dozen economies in the 2023 Asia Scam Report, published in November.
PCG-West Philippine Sea spokesman slams China ‘fabrications’
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), through its spokesman for the West Philippine Sea, has lashed out at China for insisting on its “fabricated narratives” that the United States was stirring tension in the region by agitating Filipinos against the Chinese.