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Insights from Emily Feng.

A plan to confront Beijing without subsequent outreach toward Southeast Asian countries will sacrifice national imperatives for willing partners, and those are hard to come by.

Competition can generate incentives for restraint, and restraint can create opportunities for further competition.

The BNP government plans to issue sovereign bonds in December amid slow economic growth, fiscal strain, rising dollar bills, and a global downturn in the bond market.

A vote gives a government the authority to rule. It does not give it the right to silence the people.

Drone strikes on Yandex data centers near Moscow triggered service outages in Central Asia, too.

North Korea’s ability to disperse, conceal, and employ its drones, missiles, and nuclear weapons is outpacing South Korea’s capacity to destroy them.

From KP to Balochistan and beyond, instead of addressing the underlying causes of unrest, the country's rulers are hell-bent on targeting the opposition.

Investment pledges by Japan and South Korea make tempting achievements for Trump to hold up ahead of the voting.

The immediate impact of Washington’s decision on green card certification for eight IT employers may be limited, but the freeze adds uncertainty to an immigration system already strained by decades-long queues.

Indian Defense Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh confirmed that Tajikistan and Turkmenistan are newer customers for the indigenous Akash medium-range mobile surface-to-air missile system.

Pakistan is likely looking to counter the Indian Air Force’s future strategy of launching air-launched missiles from standoff ranges.

The costs of confrontation are not confined to the security domain; it’s impacting every facet of the bilateral relationship. 

Uzbekistan courts tech companies to boost its economy by easing its once infamous data localization law.

Top companies like Infosys, Wipro, and Cognizant will not be able to apply for green cards for H-1B visa workers.

By invoking Articles 232 and 234, the federal government has essentially neutralized PTI’s institutional presence in the province.

A central part of the deterrence question

Indiscriminate arrests, detentions, police brutality, and blockades have not been able to demoralize protesters seeking the removal of the chief election commissioner.

This year’s particularly severe haze season has once again exposed the void in national and regional efforts to combat the problem.

The country's budget planners have been wrestling with the same intractable challenge since the COVID-19 pandemic.