Eager to escape perceived western domination, several countries – mostly in the Global South – are looking to join the BRICS bloc. The five-country bloc (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Afri…

Even with the most critical eye, China’s Ministry of Science and Technology deserves top marks for its achievements. According to the Nature Index’s annual list, Chinese authors ranked first f…

As Chinese Communist Party leaders gathered at the beach resort of Beidaihe in recent days, the many storm clouds on the horizon were impossible to ignore. Between an economic slowdown, deflationar…

Is the tide finally turning for Turkey? Three months after the re-election of Recep Tayyip Erdogan for his third term as president, which many feared would lead to economic chaos, ratings agency Mo…

Dear readers: Like it or not, it’s time for us to resume the exclusive, occasional coverage of politics in the US state of Georgia that Asia Times was offering in election year 2020. Georgia is a l…

China is seeking to form a stronger military partnership with Russia aimed at counteracting the United States and Japan – but it intends to stop short of

The US has strategic interests in Taiwan, in part because of its geopolitical location in the center of the First Island Chain; in part because it is a bulwark against a potentially expansionist Ch…

Japan and the US plan to bolster their defenses against hypersonic threats by teaming up to develop a hypersonic missile interceptor and satellite

The attempted armed mutiny in Russia on June 23-24, 2023, by the Wagner private military company, led by Russia’s controversial oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, is continuing to generate shockwaves dome…

US defense strategists warn that China may use the distraction of the war in Ukraine to launch military action against Taiwan. They believe Chinese

Taiwan has just unveiled one of its secretive cruise missiles, part of a long-range arsenal that ensures conventional deterrence and counterstrike

The famous pilgrimage site of Kedarnath, located in the central Himalayas of India, is believed to be a sacred land. It has been referred to as “deva

Comparing the shakeout of China’s property sector to America’s Great Financial Crisis of 2008 has become a popular meme in the commentariat. Stock markets don’t see it that way: During the 10 months from November through August in 2008, US financial stocks…

Will China’s spreading property crisis spread to banks and financial institutions? Falling home prices have in recent months disrupted Chinese property developers’ plans to sell their u…

Harvard University Professor Stephen M Walt asserts in a recent article in Foreign Policy that five key questions should guide US policy toward the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Walt’s key ques…

Given the warm welcome Bashar al-Assad received at the Arab League just three months ago, one might have expected rather warmer words from Syria’s president about the state of Arab relations in a r…

The Japanese stock market has experienced an impressive upswing. Since January 2023, the Nikkei 225 index has risen by around 30% – by far outperforming

There have been reports that Ukrainian units have crossed the Dnipro River and established bridgeheads on the eastern side – which could be an important moment in Ukraine’s summer counteroffensive …

China’s Zhongzhi Enterprise Group headline-making revelations have investors uttering global markets’ least favorite word: contagion. A liquidity crisis at the troubled shadow bank comes just …