Asia

US President Joe Biden

Is a War With China Inevitable? Is a War With China Inevitable?

The statements coming out of the Department of Defense and the upper ranks of Congress these days make it seem that way.

Jul 15, 2021 / Dispatch / Michael T. Klare

Chinese Troops Xinjiang

Xinjiang Denialists Are Only Aiding Imperialism Xinjiang Denialists Are Only Aiding Imperialism

Denying China’s oppression of Uighurs helps empire—both China’s and the US’s.

Jul 6, 2021 / Gerald Roche

Gayatri Spivak: ‘The Subaltern Speaks Through Dying’

Gayatri Spivak: ‘The Subaltern Speaks Through Dying’ Gayatri Spivak: ‘The Subaltern Speaks Through Dying’

A conversation on the educational empowerment of rural poor in India, and the evolution of Spivak's thinking about state and citizen.

Jul 6, 2021 / 2021 Year in Review / Francis Wade

Imran Khan

The US Finds Itself on the Wrong Side of Imran Khan’s Populism The US Finds Itself on the Wrong Side of Imran Khan’s Populism

Widely blamed for mismanaging the economy—and hemorrhaging support since he was elected amid accusations of vote rigging in 2018—Khan seems to believe that running against the US i...

Jul 5, 2021 / Hasan Ali

Viet Thanh Nguyen

‘We Have to Make Our Nation Confront What It Doesn’t Want to Remember’ ‘We Have to Make Our Nation Confront What It Doesn’t Want to Remember’

A conversation with Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen.

Jun 30, 2021 / Editorial / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Ebrahim Raisi

Iran’s Incredible Shrinking Democracy Iran’s Incredible Shrinking Democracy

For the first time, Iran’s presidential election outcome has been predetermined.

Jun 15, 2021 / Dostmohammad Punjabi

USS Curtis Wilson

We Don’t Have Time to Waste on Cold Wars We Don’t Have Time to Waste on Cold Wars

The US and China are the world’s two greatest carbon emitters—if they can’t figure out how to cooperate, the future of humanity is grim.

Jun 8, 2021 / Tom Engelhardt

Shinzo Abe

The History the Japanese Government Is Trying to Erase The History the Japanese Government Is Trying to Erase

Failing to teach what the wartime state did only emboldens the forces of misogyny and racism.

May 26, 2021 / Chelsea Szendi Schieder

bjp rally

‘Where Are the Moderate Hindus?’ ‘Where Are the Moderate Hindus?’

India is reeling from two deadly viruses: Covid-19 and Hindutva—a century-old far-right political ideology whose founders were directly inspired by Hitler’s Nazism and Italian Fasc...

May 14, 2021 / Sunita Viswanath

Ro Khanna: It’s Vital That the US Drop Barriers to Vaccine Production and Aid Covid-Ravaged India

Ro Khanna: It’s Vital That the US Drop Barriers to Vaccine Production and Aid Covid-Ravaged India Ro Khanna: It’s Vital That the US Drop Barriers to Vaccine Production and Aid Covid-Ravaged India

“We aren’t an island. I mean, the disease is going to continue to come back to us,” said the representative from California.

May 7, 2021 / John Nichols

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