List of Asia articles
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U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad (left) and Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar Did Trump Cave to the Taliban?
The disputed prisoner swap that is delaying peace talks was a last-minute American concession Mike Pompeo said wouldn’t happen.
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A student from China poses for family photos after graduating from the University of Sydney on Oct. 12, 2017. Who Needs a Coronavirus Quarantine When You Can Party in Thailand?
Australian universities are so dependent on money from Chinese students that they’re helping them circumvent travel bans and quarantines. The United States shows a better way.
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Employees of the Istanbul Municipality wearing protective gear disinfects a subway carriage to prevent the spread of the COVID-19, caused by the novel coronavirus, in Istanbul on March 12, 2020. Disasters Like The Coronavirus Don’t Happen In a Vacuum
The pandemic is the result of many bad choices.
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Officers assist passengers arriving at a quarantine station at Narita airport on March 9. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced on March 5 that foreign arrivals who have recently been in China or South Korea would be required to spend 14 days in quarantine. Japan and Korea Won’t Let A Pandemic Stop Them Fighting
Existing quarrels are being pushed forward as the virus spreads.
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Algerians protest against former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's bid for a fifth term in power, in Algiers on Mar. 1, 2019. Demise of the Petrostates
The oil price crash is an existential threat to petrostates from Nigeria to Iran, where governments rely on oil wealth to stabilize power and pay off competing interests.
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A U.S. Department of Homeland Security officer Trump Can’t Deport the Coronavirus
COVID-19 is as American as apple pie now—and people are more likely to catch the virus from their neighbors than from foreigners.
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U.S. President Donald Trump (left) shakes hands with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi The India-U.S. Relationship Is Bigger Than Its Showboating Leaders
Trump and Modi met as Delhi burned, but the democratic principles underpinning ties haven’t vanished.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump speak in Beijing. U.S. and China Turn Coronavirus Into a Geopolitical Football
Beijing is using the outbreak to boost its reputation for global cooperation while Washington plays the blame-Beijing game.
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Han Kuo-yu of the Kuomintang Taiwan’s Opposition Struggles to Shake Pro-China Image
The Kuomintang is rethinking how it tackles relations—but Beijing will limit any real change.
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Residents walk past debris after an earthquake and tsunami struck Japan in 2011 How Japan Rode a Tsunami to Equality
Japanese women quickly realized that the disaster that struck their country nine years ago was an unprecedented opportunity to overcome discrimination.
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U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence discuss the administration’s coronavirus response Trump and Other Leaders Grapple With Limited Economic Remedies for the Virus
With interest rates already at rock bottom and tax cuts too slow and unfocused, the U.S. president may find his best coronavirus response is a giant stimulus. But will he get one?
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Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen Xi’s Fake History Lesson for Hun Sen
Eager to appease his benefactor in Beijing, the Cambodian leader is excluding China’s role from the Khmer Rouge narrative.
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Team leader of the joint mission between the World Health Organization and China on COVID-19 Bruce Aylward The Multilateral Health System Failed to Stop the Coronavirus
Reforms in 2005 were meant to stop nation states covering outbreaks up. They didn't work.
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People line up to buy face masks in Seoul South Korea’s President Tried to Help China Contain the Coronavirus. Now People Want Him Impeached.
Beijing and Seoul were finally starting to get along. Then the coronavirus struck, South Korea decided to send masks, and everybody got mad.
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a White House press conference on the COVID-19 outbreak on Feb. 26. Truth Has Become a Coronavirus Casualty
From Beijing to Washington, governments have been muzzling scientists, inflating the success of their containment efforts, and discrediting valid reporting. Citizens have to fight back.
