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Bert Hofman, NUS East Asian Institute The annual gathering of China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) took place in March, at the usual time this year....

Anthony V Rinna, Sino-NK South Korea’s reluctance to explicitly embrace the US vision of a ‘free and open Indo-Pacific’ has contributed to the view that the country...

Choong Yong Ahn, Chung-Ang University Chinese President Xi Jinping made global headlines at the APEC summit on 20 November 2020 by announcing that China was...

Kristin Vekasi, University of Maine In January 2021, the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology discussed the possibility of restricting rare earth mineral exports to the...

Patrick M Cronin, Hudson Institute The defence challenge in Asia is enormous. The Joe Biden administration wants to discipline China’s grey-zone coercion while deterring Beijing...

Sangin Park, SNU To understand the South Korean economy is to have an understanding of the chaebol, large business conglomerates controlled by their founding families....

Chinese government sanctions target three individuals and one entity from Canada and the United States. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/27/china-sanctions-us-canada-officials-over-xinjiang-rebuke

Faisal Mahmud Refugees recount ordeal after deadly blaze leaves tens of thousands without a shelter, reawakens trauma of Myanmar army’s 2017 crackdown. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/27/rebuilding-from-the-ashes-rohingya-a-year-after-deadly-blaze

Syed Fazl-e Haider On February 26, Nooristan, known as Hasan Baba, was killed by Pakistani security forces. He was a commander of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan...