Asia
"Care and humanity are going to be the most important things moving forward. That is what keeps me optimistic. Each of us will have to do our part."
Asia
"Without a concerted nationwide push from Moscow towards a climate sensitive Russia, it seems that Putin’s changing attitudes towards climate could end up being nothing more than words."
Arts & Culture
"K-Pop’s fusion into foreign markets has often been quantitatively successful. However, this success has also elicited tension between Koreans and people of other Asian ethnicities."
Asia
"The Taliban, a terror group in the lay eyes of most of the world, would appear to violate nearly all of the liberal values the UN espouses. Nevertheless, their potential for membership is not unimaginable."
Asia
"The DMZ’s unique combination of varied geography and virtual isolation for almost three quarters of a century has turned the region into a natural, unregulated park teeming with wildlife."
Cybersecurity
"The U.S.-Russia bilateral cybersecurity dialogue is but a small part of the larger international dialogue on the provision of stability and security within cyberspace."
China
"With global integration as an arena for great power politics, China is flexing its muscles at a level that the United States simply is unwilling or unable to pursue."
Asia
"Behind closed doors, Disney, and indeed all of Hollywood, have been self-censoring plots, characters, and dialogues for decades to appease the Chinese Communist Party."
Asia
"I think the salient question is where is there room for agreement between the United States, Russia, and China on constraints, rules of the road, norms for behavior for how they incorporate AI and autonomy into military systems, and is there any room for agreement?"
Asia
"In order to cultivate an inclusive national unity, secularism needs to be at the core of new Nepal."
Energy & Environment
The West’s turn to green energy is opening new opportunities for Ukrainian economic integration with the European Union.
Asia
"The transnational ties between white nationalists pose an important question: how do we curb the threat of violent extremism and its globalization?"