China’s property sector is sinking. Once the economic backbone by which hundreds of million Chinese went from poverty to the middle class, the industry is now seeing slumps in the value of real ...

Jason Tower is the country director of the Burma Program at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), where he closely follows Myanmar’s civil war, human trafficking, and the ...

Over-optimistic assumptions about the transformative impact of microfinance loans on the incomes of borrowers have been a consistent feature of the industry for years. Over-valuation of the assets ...

In the 21st century, Chinese foreign policy has increasingly focused on building global partnerships and expanding its interests through strategic relationships with other nations. These ...

Strategic competition between China and the United States has become the primary force shaping the contours of world politics. A new dimension has emerged in this titanic clash: an ideological ...

In early September, Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen met with Shafiqur Rahman, the chief of the Bangladeshi political party Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), at the party’s central office in Dhaka.

A view of the Sunshine Care Center (SCC) in Mae Sot, Thailand, which provides care for those wounded in Myanmar’s ongoing conflict. Credit: Hannah Oo MAE SOT, THAILAND—It’s 8 p.m. in Mae Sot ...

South Korea and Japan are inextricably linked by their shared geographical and security concerns, as well as their separate alliances with the United States. U.S. bases in Japan would be essential ...

Reporting on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Delaware trip for the Quad Summit came with a fascinating bundle of contradictions. On the one hand, the “India Rising” story continued.

With analysts increasingly predicting that the Arakan Army (AA) may soon defeat and expel junta forces from Rakhine State in northwest Myanmar, the country is about to arrive at a potentially game ...

Then-Japanese Defense Minister Ishiba Shigeru (left) holds a press conference with then-U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Nov. 8, 2007. Credit: U.S Department of Defense/Cherie A. Thurlby For ...