Asia Newsletter

Fifty-one years after victory over Washington’s war machine, Vietnam faces a subtler assault – sanctions, debt, and covert subversion – and answers with a commitment to peace and development.

When the last US soldier left Taiwan in 1979, Washington’s grip did not loosen – it simply changed shape, shifting from barracks and warships to classrooms, newsrooms, and the minds of a generation.

The foreign military bases sold to Persian Gulf monarchies as protection have instead pulled them into a war they never chose – turning their own territory into the first target struck when retaliation arrives.

Decades of organising transformed a divided society through public education, healthcare, cooperatives, and cadre formation – showing how popular power can survive defeat at the ballot box and keep reshaping democracy.

Women intellectuals and activists from across Asia gathered to expose a single truth: US military bases scattered across the continent do not protect their hosts – they import war, poison the land, and exact a…

From Okinawa’s farmers to the Philippines’ ‘Magnificent 12’, Asia’s peoples have confronted US militarism before – a tradition more urgent now as the New Cold War arrives on their shores.

Nepal’s left has suffered a historic electoral rout. A veteran communist reflects on the ideological drift, generational disconnect, and geopolitical pressures that brought the movement to this crossroads – and what must be done now.

In an era of aggressive imperialist manoeuvres, can a debt-stricken nation maintain its sovereignty without provoking the wrath of global powers?

The sinking of an unarmed Iranian frigate in the Indian Ocean exposes India’s hollow foreign policy and silent subordination to US-Israeli aggression, threatening regional sovereignty and India’s own strategic autonomy.

Behind the 2026 Bangladesh election lies a struggle over constitutional identity, geopolitical alignment, and class power, revealing how state institutions, civil society networks, and global strategy converged to reshape Bangladesh’s political settlement.

A snowstorm vote, scripted social media praise, and a distorted electoral system converge to consolidate ultra-right power in Japan, revealing how spectacle and structural bias combine to hollow out democratic representation.

Today, Thailand’s political landscape is defined by a three-way struggle between PTP’s disruptive populism, the liberal Peoples Party’s westernised idealism, and Bhumjaithai Party’s reactionary clientelism.