Also in today’s newsletter, OpenAI’s massive new funding round, and India’s Narendra Modi faces tough budget challenge ...

The Philippines will “return” the Typhon missile launchers to the United States if China will drop its claim on the West ...

China is on a mission to become the world’s dominant superpower by 2049. That goal is driving a desire to build a world-class ...

Laos is heavily indebted to and economically dependent on China. Could Vietnam and Thailand offer a way out of its conundrum?

Trump’s pick to be director of the FBI, loyalist KASH PATEL, was already expected to have a much easier path to confirmation than director of national intelligence nominee TULSI GABBARD. Gabbard has ...

According to DeepSeek’s own privacy policy, the company collects users’ keystrokes, text and audio input, uploaded files, feedback, chat history and other content for the purpose of training its AI ...

With Western sanctions cutting off supplies, China has become Russia’s sole source of critical minerals used in weapons ...

Although Qantas pulled its only direct flight to China between Sydney and Shanghai in mid-2024, last year saw a return to pre ...

THE second installment of this series briefly discussed China's dramatic agricultural transformation. Professor Jikun Huang of the China Center for Agricultural Policy at Peking University revealed ...

Suspected Chinese spies posing as Taiwanese tourists have been arrested for allegedly taking photographs of Philippine Coast Guard ships, local media reported.

An American Airlines jet carrying 60 passengers and four crew members on Wednesday collided with a US Army helicopter while ...

O VER THE past decade, as Chinese governance has become more politicised and a fear of punishment has taken hold, local officials have changed the way they do things. Many are hol ...