Asia

Asia
China is benefiting from the hell in Myanmar
It didn’t create the civil war. But it is playing both sides

Asia
The real reason Indians are lost
A dodgy address system means delays that cost billions of dollars a year

Asia
Can India create its own Ivy League?
The country is home to around a fifth of the world’s university-age population. Why are they going abroad?

Leaders
Myanmar is a demonstration of Chinese hegemony in action
China is playing all sides in the country’s bloody civil war


Asia
There is an “imminent” threat to Taiwan, America warns
Pete Hegseth says a war would be devastating for the world

Asia
China calls the shots in Myanmar’s civil war
To see how, follow an oil-and-gas pipeline through three conflict zones

Asia
Myanmar’s scam empire gets worse, not better
Fewer Chinese are forced to come, but more workers are coming by choice

Asia
Australia’s conservatives bicker in the political wilderness
The Liberal-National coalition will be resurrected, but its prospects look grim


Asia
Narendra Modi has kept his vow to make India like Gujarat
Better infrastructure and higher incomes, but also greater segregation and discrimination

Asia
If India chokes less, it will fry more
Pollution may have shielded it from the worst of global warming. That will change