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South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol (#尹锡悦/#윤석열/#尹錫悦) said Japan was a partner nation that shares universal values, indicating that Seoul seeks to mend the fractious ties...
New research suggests that, if it is not careful, China may be on track for a new wave of Japanification. https://t.co/OT1tmo3V5g https://t.co/21S82VJSG6
1/10 Citibank apparently has an interesting research piece on the similarities between China’s economy today and Japan's of the late 1980s and early 1990s: "Back in 2003," the FT n...
Horrifying scene of the mining accident in Inner Mongolia https://t.co/Ge3Tbux5Xj
My piece this week explores how a patchwork of Asian economies from Hokkaido to Gujarat stacks up as an alternative to China for global manufacturers. Whether it works in practice...
Fascinating talk https://t.co/aEHf6r6jsp
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen met Friday with China's Xi on a visit that underscores increasingly close ties . Hun Sen in 2019 reportedly granted China the right to set up a mil...
“Is Japan actually the chief candidate to become “Asia’s Ukraine,” rather than Taiwan? A careful consideration would suggest so.” - Thomas Polin https://t.co/fuAV6QCx9j
Deputy chief of KMT Andrew Hsia 夏立言 to visit Chinese mainland, may meet with Wang Huning, https://t.co/ZnT4l75xyl https://t.co/D0qF86nROn
ASIA 20:00 Start to Asia OTE** 21:00 Start to Asia NYSEO 22:00 Asia Reversal 00:00 End to the Asia Range / Daily Open* ⬇️
Frigid winter weather gripped East Asia for the second straight day on Wednesday, causing several deaths and multiple injuries in Japan and a scramble for flights out of South Kore...
The tiny island of Java has more population than all of Russia More than all of Japan Why? https://t.co/mrkRzU5uCx
Want to understand the intricacies of China’s economy? Read Arthur Kroeber’s China’s Economy: What You Need to Know (2016). Kroeber sets the expectation up front--China’s economy...
Has the Ukraine war broken the West's focus on Asia? -🇺🇸 declared that it would "Pivot" to Asia in 2012 -🇬🇧 announced a "tilt" to the Indo-Pac in 2021 -🇪🇺 like France called thems...
1. The Pamirs and the Fate of Xinxiang and Ladakh: A Pivotal Region in British-Russian Rivalry in Central Asia In the pre-colonial days, the rulers who ruled the cities of Central...
The most important part of this isn't that it's happening, which has been the presumption for decades, but that it's happening a decade earlier than fairly recent projections sugge...
I found a copy of this book at a used bookstore several years ago and just got around to reading it. Found it fascinating. Traces the way the Japanese military became progressively...
🧵🇨🇳🇷🇺 Does China distance itself from Russia because of war against Ukraine? A terrific @FT piece helps to understand how Beijing wants its policy towards Moscow to be seen in West...
1/10 "Chinese state media appear to be downplaying concerns that countries such as India could steal China’s crown as the so-called world’s factory." They cite one economist who n...
What is currently happening in Southeast Asia is the most important geopolitical story of the next generation but it barely gets coverage outside the region. In a generation one w...
1/6 "China’s rise wasn’t all about cheap labor. Modern infrastructure was a big factor in drawing global companies to use the country as a manufacturing hub." This is a point that...
THE IMPACT OF THE ISLAMIC STATE IN ASIA Background: A Resurgence of Transnational Terrorism in Asia? The dramatic successes of the Salafi-Jihadist terrorist movement, the Islamic...
Interviewed Ambassador Vijay Gokhale recently - India's former Foreign Secretary and Ambassador to China - One of 🇮🇳's finest 🇨🇳 watchers with 30+ years exp. We spoke about: - W...
1. Strategic Blunder and Lost Opportunity The Thumb Rule of Geopolitics In the modern world, the meeting of India’s and China’s borders was inevitable. But wars are always fought...