China, Up Close
BYD Decided to Build Where It Sells. Southeast Asia Said Yes.
A Thai plant that hit its ten-thousandth car in four months, and an Indonesian one now expected to employ 18,000. BYD exported the factory, not the car.
China's Next Export Might Not Be Factories. It Might Be Cheap Intelligence.
Ministers from Kazakhstan, Colombia and Chad turned up at a Beijing tech conference. The pitch is shifting from things China builds to computing it rents.
Landlocked Kazakhstan Found Its Ocean on China's East Coast
The first physical Belt and Road project was a container yard in a Chinese port—now one of the busiest overland gateways between Asia and Europe.
Ninety-Two New Ways Out: Read the Map of China's Air-Freight Push
92 new international cargo routes in six months. Where they go, and where they don't, tells you where Chinese exports are headed.
Before the Network, the Classroom: Huawei's Quieter Play in Africa
The company known for the fights over its 5G gear has trained 1.8 million students, and a generation fluent in its systems.
For Fifty Years This Himalayan Road Just Went Through. Now People Stop.
A 1976 supply route over the Hengduan Mountains has become a tourism corridor—coffee shops at altitude included.
Eighty Tonnes to Caracas: What China Put on the Plane
After two earthquakes killed more than 1,400 people, a Chinese relief flight left Beijing with tents, blankets and water-purification trucks.
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Korea Sailed a Submarine to British Columbia. It Lost the Deal Anyway.
Ottawa handed the largest defense contract in its history to a German yard. The more revealing story is how far Korea's arms industry has climbed to get close.
The Government Gen Z Elected Faces Its Own 100-Day Test
Balen Shah went from rapper-engineer to prime minister on a wave of youth anger at corruption. His first 100 days are closing, and the movement that elected him is starting to ask what's actually changed.
The Bill That Fell 54 Votes Short: Inside India's Delimitation Standoff
A Modi government constitutional amendment failed in the Lok Sabha for the first time in 12 years, and the north-south seat fight underneath it is far from over.
Japan's Immigration Fight Moves to the Right of the Government Itself
Sanseito wants to abolish Japan's Immigration Services Agency, outflanking a prime minister already running the hardest immigration line of any postwar Japanese leader.
The Junta's Countdown: Inside Myanmar's 100-Day Gambit
Min Aung Hlaing's 100-day peace ultimatum, and why nearly every armed group that matters has already said no.
Stranded at the Border: How a Himalayan Flood Exposed Nepal's Chinese EV Boom
A washed-out bridge, seventy stranded electric cars, and the road that turned Nepal into an EV-adoption leader.
Locked Out, Logged In: Australia's Under-16 Social Media Ban Meets Reality
Millions of accounts closed, a $99 million fine on the table, and most teenagers still logging in.
The Quiet Return: How Japan Is Rebuilding Its Leadership Across Asia
Tokyo's newest project in the Philippines is a boathouse. That modesty is the point.
From BTS to Semiconductors: How South Korea Turned Pop Culture into Economic Strategy
A Netflix film about a K-pop demon-hunting girl group broke a streaming record. Seoul built the pipeline that made it likely.
Where Is the World's Football Really Made?
Pakistan didn't qualify for the 2026 World Cup. Its footballs did, for the fourth tournament running.
The Asian Factory Behind Every Goal
Vietnam now makes more than half of every Nike shoe sold worldwide, boots included.
The $100 Billion Road Across Asia
A highway meant to link Tokyo to Istanbul is more than 92 percent up to standard. The rest is the hard part.
A Decade After Its Launch, Has China's AIIB Changed Development Finance?
Washington lobbied allies to skip it in 2015. It's now the World Bank's largest co-financing partner.
The New Great Game of Development Finance
Who actually pays for Asia's ports, rail and power grids, and why the answer is rarely just one bank.
The Rise of Asia's Strategic Middle Powers
Vietnam, Indonesia, Japan and others are hedging between Washington and Beijing rather than choosing sides.
Beyond Silicon Valley: Asia's Quiet AI Revolution
Seven economies now run their own large language models. The chips underneath nearly all of them come from Asia too.
The Shipping Routes That Built Modern Asia
Singapore's port hit a record in 2025, while ships were taking two extra weeks to dodge the Red Sea.
One Boat, Zero Backups: What HMS Anson's Perth Layover Reveals About AUKUS
The first UK nuclear submarine ever serviced on Australian soil arrived at a moment Britain's own parliament warned the fleet was overstretched.
162 and Falling: Japan's Weakest Yen in Forty Years Meets a Prime Minister Who Doesn't Want Higher Rates
Tokyo spent a record $73.6 billion defending the yen this year. It fell through the defense anyway.
The $576 Billion Bet on a Rice-Farming Province: Inside Korea's Gwangju Chip Gambit
Samsung and SK Hynix are building four fabs in the region with the country's weakest chip-supplier base, government data shows.
Twenty-Eight Nanometers, Eleven Billion Dollars: India's Bet on Chips Nobody Else Wants to Make
Tata and ASML are betting on chip nodes a decade behind the frontier—a deliberate strategy, not a compromise.
Hong Kong Wants to Be Asia's Fort Knox: Can 250 Tonnes of Gold Get It There?
A government-owned clearing company is racing toward 2,000 tonnes of vault capacity. Two earlier attempts at this already failed.
13,000 Accounts, 860,000 Messages: Inside China's Alleged Campaign to Shape Taiwan's Local Elections
Taiwan's spy agency says its government network was hit more than 173 million times in three months.
Twenty Olympic Pools a Day: Malaysia's AI Boom Runs Into Johor's Water Table
Malaysia's data centers now draw nearly 200 times more water than ordinary industrial users.
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