Like Japan and the United States, China will soon be graying, while India will be brimming over with youthful workers.
Never Mind China, Time to Pivot to India
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China
What Happened to the BRICS?
The BRICS were well poised to rival the West’s control of the global economy. But while they grapple with economic slowdowns and rising social tensions, other blocs of developing economies are rising to the fore.
Asia: On the Rocks
U.S. efforts to construct an “armed peace” in the Asia-Pacific are only encouraging a cycle of escalation.
Taiwan’s Sunflower Revolution: One Year Later
As youth movements rise to the fore, Taiwan is undergoing a change of identity.
How Did U.S. Go from “Constructive Engagement” to Containing China?
Today’s conventional wisdom holds that the American effort to integrate China into the international order has only succeeded in generating new threats to U.S. primacy in Asia.
China’s Offering a World Bank Alternative — and U.S. Allies Are Signing Up
Beijing is only too happy to offer an alternative to Western-dominated international finance. What’s more surprising is that leading Western economies are signing up.
Foreign Agents
Some international NGOs promote universal norms and values while others advance the interests of governments. Is it possible to create space for one kind without the other?
Putin Ensuring Authoritarian Governance With an Orderly Political Succession
Like Singapore’s recently deceased Lee Kuan Yew and China’s Deng Xiaoping, Vladimir Putin is establishing a political succession that ensures continuity for his brand of authoritarianism.
Humanity’s War on Wildlife
One day not so very long from now our children may think of the T. rex and the tiger as co-occupants of a single Lost World
Is China a Threat? The Devil’s in the Details
It turns out that that a large-scale conflict in the Asia-Pacific is much more difficult to imagine than China hawks like to pretend.