Geography Archives: Asia

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wrote on social media that this was a “deliberately short-term measure” and would not be of “significant financial benefit” to Russia.

The U.S. war on Iran is not a miscalculation.

The Indian government appears to have abandoned even the remnants of neutrality, and thrown in its lot with the U.S.-Israeli side. What explains this stand?

The Electric Union of Cuba (UNE, in Spanish) is executing a program to install 5,000 photovoltaic systems of 2 kilowatts (kW), donated by the People’s Republic of China, as part of a strategy to mitigate the impact of the energy crisis caused by the U.S. blockade and diversify the generation matrix on the island.

A democratic and balanced development strategy that is also non-invidious towards other countries of the global south, is one where “exports” from industry are directed not towards other countries but towards the domestic agricultural sector.

Parliament was not allowed to discuss the Epstein files. There is no such prohibition on the people of India.

To make sense of present developments it is essential to understand the dialectic of continuity and change in U.S. imperial grand strategy.

Cold War II is transforming the global system, with two competing visions: The U.S. seeks to revive colonialism and imperialist spheres of influence. China wants a multipolar order based on peace, sovereign equality, and win-win cooperation. Compare speeches by their top officials.

In a 1952 song entitled “Bye Bye Big Brass,” anti-war singer Woody Guthrie dreamed up a scenario in which he is shipped off to the Korean War and, rather than kill a Chinese soldier he encounters, sits and talks with him by a campfire, hides out with him, and fights back against the U.S. Army with him.

Indonesia says it is ready to join a proposed international force in Gaza but only under strict conditions. Jakarta insists its troops will not engage in combat, disarm resistance groups, or normalize ties, while setting a tightly controlled humanitarian mandate for any deployment.

A snowstorm vote, scripted social media praise, and a distorted electoral system converge to consolidate ultra-right power in Japan, revealing how spectacle and structural bias combine to hollow out democratic representation.

The two most obvious implications of this Unequal Treaty are, first, with regard to the purchase of Russian oil, and second, with regard to the agricultural sector.

The strike was called jointly by the worker unions and farmers groups to demand the withdrawal of the anti-people policies, such as the four new labor codes and the recently signed trade deals with the U.S. and the EU.

Building solidarity with Chinese academics against great power conflict.

Chinese regulators have advised major banks to reduce their exposure to U.S. Treasuries, citing market volatility and risk concentration.

The news emerged in Israeli media outlets amid a lawsuit filed by members of Kibbutz Hanita against Ballet Vision, a Chinese-controlled fund that holds an 80% stake in Hanita Lenses, an intraocular lens manufacturing plant located in the northern part of the occupied lands near the Lebanese border.

The most pressing problems of the Indian economy at present are: the phenomenal rise in economic inequality, whose magnitude now is higher than at any time during the last one hundred years; the massive increase in absolute poverty as initially defined by the Planning Commission by taking into account a daily calorie-intake norm; and the enormous increase in unemployment which now even afflicts a vast chunk of the country’s educated youth.

In a recent editorial, the Washington Post characterized Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s diplomatic mission to Beijing as a “shortsighted” attempt to “troll” President Donald Trump. The critique suggests that Canada is blurring the line between pragmatism and naiveté, trading long-term security for a “show” of strategic partnership with a “dictator.” According to this view, […]

Today, Thailand’s political landscape is defined by a three-way struggle between PTP’s disruptive populism, the liberal Peoples Party’s westernised idealism, and Bhumjaithai Party’s reactionary clientelism.

India’s liberalisation beginning in the 1990s has led to a steady decline in manufacturing. To reverse this trend and expand productive employment, industrial policy must address structural issues of dependence and inequality.