Geography Archives: Asia

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.

For the time being, open-source attempts to assess the breaking-point for the Ukrainians are inconclusive.

In communications sent to the Indian government on 19 January, the UN body warned that security, citizenship and conservation policies may be operating in racially discriminatory ways, raising concerns of systemic violations under international law.

This breakthrough provides a model for greener, smarter, and larger-scale operations.

China announced an $80 million emergency aid package and 60,000 tons of rice for Cuba, addressing the island’s economic and energy crisis exacerbated by the U.S. blockade.

The Council on Foreign Relations shrinks the political imagination of learners and deploys the interests of the elite among an increasingly precarious American populace.

Part of the U.S. empire’s strategy in this information war is to erase the Chinese people’s major contribution to the defeat of fascism and imperialism in WWII.

Beijing condemns U.S. terrorist action against Venezuela, demands immediate release of President Maduro.

Thomas Bass shows how insistence that nuclear power is a safe answer to energy needs is contradicted by the reality of the Fukushima disaster’s aftermath, finds Elaine Graham-Leigh.

Western claims are contradicted by empirical evidence.

On October 26, 2025, Trump announced that he had signed an Agreement on Reciprocal Trade with Malaysia.