Philippines ASEAN Chair

Philippines Steps Into ASEAN Chair at a Time of Rising Fractures and Strategic Peril

The Philippines will assume the annually rotating chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for 2026, inheriting a crowded and combustible agenda at a moment of unusual strain for both the regional bloc and the wider international order....
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Xi Jinping

Japan–China Ties Strained by Taiwan Remarks as Deeper Fault Lines Re-emerge in Asia

After several weeks marked by suspended flights, bans on Japanese seafood imports, cancelled cultural events performed to empty arenas, stepped-up military activity, and even reported fire-control radar lock-ons by fighter aircraft, relations between Japan and China remain deeply strained. While...
IndiGo

IndiGo’s Turbulence Exposes Structural Fault Lines in India’s Aviation Boom

Not too long ago, the reputation of IndiGo, India’s largest budget carrier, appeared unassailable. With a dominant 65 per cent share of the domestic passenger market, a fleet exceeding 400 aircraft, and more than 2,000 daily flights, IndiGo had become...
China manufacturing

Southeast Asia’s Youth Dividend at Risk as Unemployment and Skills Gaps Deepen

Southeast Asia is often described as one of the world’s most demographically advantaged regions. Home to more than 680 million people, over half of its population is under the age of 30. This youthful profile has long been touted as...
China Services Sector

China’s New Economic Model Puts Asia’s Gen Z at Risk

Asia’s economic miracle was built on trade. For decades, export-led growth lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, created vast manufacturing workforces, and offered young people a reliable ladder into the middle class. That model is now under severe strain...
Venezuela

Venezuela: Trump Revives Monroe Doctrine in New Strategy, Reasserting U.S. Dominance Over Latin America

The 1823 proclamation effectively positioned the United States as the political gatekeeper of Latin America, setting in motion nearly two hundred years of interventions, military occupations, regime changes and covert operations across the region. For much of the 19th and...
China's Consumer Prices Rise Less Than Expected in September; Factory-Gate Charges Continue Decline for 24th Month

China’s Demographic Crisis Deepens: Aging Population, Falling Fertility, and a Growing Bride Market in South Asia

Earlier this year, a phrase ricocheted across Chinese social media platforms, encapsulating a fear that has long simmered beneath the surface of the country’s economic narrative. The phrase — “getting old before getting rich” — captured, with chilling clarity, a...
Hong Kong fire: Wang Fuk Court structure fire, Tai Po District, Hong Kong.

Inferno in the Sky: How the Tai Po High-Rise Fire Became One of Hong Kong’s Worst Disasters

The fire started as a single column of smoke curling above a renovation platform in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district. Within minutes it had grown into a vertical sheet of flame that climbed the sides of the Wang Fuk Court...
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Xi Jinping

Japan Draws Sharpest Red Line Yet on Taiwan, Triggering Diplomatic Firestorm With China

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has issued the most explicit warning yet from any Japanese leader regarding a potential Chinese assault on Taiwan, declaring that such an attack would directly threaten Japan’s national survival and could trigger Tokyo’s right to...
KAAN fighter jet

Turkey’s KAAN Fighter Faces a Hard Truth: Why Turkey’s ‘Indigenous’ Fighter Still Depends on Foreign Permission

Turkey’s long-touted fifth-generation fighter jet, KAAN, has been promoted by Ankara as the moment the country “joins the club” of elite air powers. For foreign customers, however, the attraction is not so clear-cut. Behind the glossy rollouts and state-backed hype...
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