The February 27-28 summit in Hanoi between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ended without an agreement on denuclearization or progress on normalization of US-DPRK relations and building a peace…
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Unrealistic divestment targets and dubious asset sales are standing in the way of New Deihi’s goal to reduce its public sector and improve its public finance. Source: Finance Asia Read More: Why India’s divestment…
(Photo: Reuters/Leah Millis.) Some observers in Seoul, deeply troubled by the outcome of the first Trump-Kim summit in Singapore, feared that the Hanoi Summit might produce an agreement that only partially addressed North Korea’s nuclear…
By Thomas Pepinsky Indonesians will go to the polls in April to elect their next president, national legislature, and many provincial and local governments. This will be Indonesia’s fourth direct presidential election and its fifth parliamentary…
Asia’s answer to Las Vegas is on the brink of change – and much of it could be good news for investors in its highly lucrative gaming industry. Source: Finance Asia Read More: Casino…
The collective reaction to the Hanoi Summit was summed up in most media outlets with one word: failure. Just typing “Hanoi failure” into a Google news search produces a copious collection of diverse reporting from…
By David Dollar The beginning of China’s rise as a global power can be dated to the country’s accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001. Throughout the next 16 years of the Bush and…
Abstract Since the 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Xi Jinping has continued to dominate the political stage. Having succeeded to abolish the two-term limit for the presidency in March 2018, he has…
Recent commercial satellite imagery of North Korea’s Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site shows no activity around the former tunnel portal areas. There are no signs of site restoration or vehicles tracking in the snow. Only a…
By Jonathan Stromseth, Thomas Pepinsky, Fred Dews Indonesia, a presidential democracy, is the largest Muslim-majority nation in the world and the fourth most populated on earth. It is also the largest nation in Southeast Asia—Indonesia’s…