Why Cambodia Matters to the U.S.-China Rivalry
Little could be more symbolic of the power struggle playing out in Southeast Asia than what is happening on the outskirts of Ream National Park,...
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Japanese PM Fumio Kishida Faces an Uncertain Future
It’s not easy being Japan’s Prime Minister. Though the center-right Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has dominated the country’s politics for nearly seven decades, the top...
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What Xi Jinping Really Thinks
Xi Jinping has changed China fundamentally. He has kept the same political system that Chairman Mao Zedong created when he founded the People’s Republic of...
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The Modi-fication of India Is Almost Complete
Earlier this month, two Indian writers published an ode to their Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Written in lyric form and titled “Forever In Our Hearts,”...
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Red China Isn’t ‘Back’ Under Xi Jinping. It Never Went Away
About a year ago, former Prime Minister of Australia and sinologist Kevin Rudd wrote that Red China is “back.” If only Beijing could come to...
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How a Divided America Emboldens Putin’s Aggression
When the now-martyred Alexei Navalny was a sarcastically witty student in this first author’s 2010 Yale class, he asked how my lessons on charismatic leadership...
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How to Combat Rape and Abductions in Conflict Zones
From Ukraine to Israel, Iran to Afghanistan, and a number of other less covered war-torn areas, atrocities against children, women and other innocents today are...
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The U.S. Has No Endgame in Yemen
The U.S. has launched a new long-term military intervention in the Middle East, as Department of Defense officials warn that plans to strike at Houthi...