Geography Archives: Asia

The little-reported opening of a major rail link between China and Iran may upend the strategic calculations behind U.S. imperial policy in the Middle East, argues Kevin Crane.

When Bertolt Brecht wrote: “Hungry man; reach for the book” he was articulating the Left attitude to education, as something that broadens perceptions and hence is essentially emancipatory. The fascist attitude to education is diametrically opposite to this.

The southern state spends nearly 60% of its revenue budget on education, health, pensions, food subsidies and rural development.

As profit-driven exploitation imperils Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, some unique conservation strategies are working to save it.

The IRGC said it has identified and surveilled the bases from which the U.S. attack on Iranian nuclear facilities was launched, affirming its entitlement to respond in self-defense.

Tricontinental is producing a series of regular newsletters in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, building a roadmap that allows us to grasp the rapid changes before us and highlight the movements taking action to reverse the ugliness inflicted upon humanity.

Russian and Chinese Military Cargo Planes are shuttling “support” to Iran: Weapons systems, air defenses, missiles, and so forth.

The 1998 reform movement (reformasi) that successfully overthrew former president Suharto did not automatically change the political-economic power structure in Indonesia. The political system that was promised to be more democratic was still controlled by the old elite and the owners of capital.

Nicaragua, with Chinese financing, launches its largest solar plant to date—powering water systems, cutting energy costs, and deepening South-South cooperation on infrastructure for social good.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth laid down the law to military allies and partners throughout the Indo-Pacific: “Dramatically escalate your military build-up and put yourselves on a war footing for conflict with China.”

The Philippines’ most famous leftist couple is the subject of a stirring new documentary.

The U.S. is in desperate economic and military “competition” with China and has lost a lot of ground fast.

THE mercantilists had defined a nation’s prosperity in terms of the amount of precious metals it possessed and a nation’s progress in terms of the increase in its amount of precious metals.

Harvard faces legal and political turmoil after Trump revokes its ability to admit foreign students, but China responds with open offers.

The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) strongly condemns the extrajudicial killing of Nambala Keshava Rao, General Secretary of the CPI (Maoist), and 26 others, many of whom were Adivasi residents, in an alleged encounter carried out under the guise of counterinsurgency operations in Narayanpur district, Chhattisgarh.

New Delhi’s escalation over the Indus River isn’t just environmental–it’s strategic, existential, and signals a new front in the war of attrition with Islamabad.

In a statement concerning the killing of at least 27 Maoist rebels, including their leader, by state forces, on Wednesday 21 May, in Chhattisgarh, the Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) spoke.

At the time of the 1949 revolution, China was largely an agrarian society with widespread poverty, famine and lack of infrastructure.

For the first time, the growth in China’s clean power generation has caused the nation’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to fall despite rapid power demand growth.

In the biggest aerial dogfight since World War II, two nuclear-armed rivals test the boundaries of conflict and deterrence–with some jaw-dropping surprises in the mix.