Myanmar’s battered junta embraces drone warfare
In four years of civil war, Myanmar’s ruling junta has suffered a slew of humiliating military reversals. But this year it no...
Riots over a dead Muslim ruler put Narendra Modi in a tight spot
The Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, who reigned between 1658 and 1707, has been a hated figure among Indian Hindu nationalists for ...
Why India’s south is fighting plans to overhaul parliament
Battling India’s central government is almost a way of life for M.K. Stalin, the chief minister of the southern state of Tami...
China’s cynicism offensive in Asia
AT NEGOTIATIONS last month in Jakarta on a deal to ease tensions in the South China Sea, the leader of the Chinese delegation...
North Korea is remarkably entrenched in global supply chains
What do salmon fillets, fake eyelashes and animated children’s TV shows all have in common? All these familiar parts of Weste...
Taiwan’s president takes on alleged Chinese infiltration
Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te, broke with tradition on March 13th when he declared China to be a “foreign hostile force” t...
India is obsessed with giving its people “unique IDs”
THE PROMISE of Aadhaar, India’s biometrics-based national-identity system, was a glorious one. It was designed to provide a l...
Why the Indian diaspora has not yet embraced Donald Trump
On March 17th Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, sat down for a three-hour interview with Lex Fridman, a podcaster popula...
Why are North Korean hackers such good crypto-thieves?
FEBRUARY 21st was a typical day, recalls Ben Zhou, the boss of ByBit, a Dubai-based cryptocurrency exchange. Before going to ...
How dangerous would Asian security be without America?
AFTER RUSSIA invaded Ukraine in 2022 Kishida Fumio, then Japan’s prime minister, repeated a warning: “Ukraine today could be ...