Does China Have a Plan for Dealing With a Democratic Congress?

China remains exposed to maritime disruption, but its expanding regional reach is increasing the military and political costs of exploiting that vulnerability.

India’s green hydrogen ambitions are running up against high production costs, infrastructure gaps, and uncertain domestic demand, even as the government seeks to position the country as a global export hub.

The midterm results don’t change the topics that should lead the agenda for the Trump-Xi summit in Shenzhen.

Unlike Trump, who has ignored the Modi government’s imperfect democratic record, many Democrats have been vocal in criticizing the erosion of democracy in India.

A massive data breach that affected several airlines across Asia has underscored the need for industries in the region to revisit their reliance on third-party suppliers, analysts have said, warning that more critical infrastructure may soon be affected. Last week, a wave of airlines reported that customer information was accessed in a data security breach involving Spanish software provider Amadeus. Several of these breaches involved information found in booking details, including flight data,...

Despite the growing momentum in relations between Poland and India, policy differences exist over Russia.

The Mbappe incident stands out because of the entirely apolitical context of his alleged offense and the strikingly disproportionate response from China

Chinese artificial intelligence models led by Moonshot AI’s Kimi family accounted for nearly nine-tenths of estimated global enterprise spending on open-source systems, according to a new study, even though proprietary US rivals continue to capture the vast majority of overall revenue. The report, released this week by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Menlo Ventures, said Chinese AI systems accounted for 89 per cent of global enterprise spending on open-source models. Kimi led with a 61 per...

A summit could bolster Xi Jinping’s stature. But talks about Ukraine’s future and limits on nuclear weapons pose uncomfortable choices for China.

Solana, one of the world’s largest blockchain networks, plans to expand in Hong Kong to tap the city’s growing demand for tokenisation, according to a senior executive. “I believe that the biggest opportunity for Solana is actually in [the Asia-Pacific region],” Solana Company chairman and CEO Joseph Chee said in an interview in Hong Kong earlier this week. Founded in the US in 2018, the company is behind one of the most popular cryptocurrencies. With a market capitalisation of about US$53...

A growing push among Indonesian lawmakers to investigate Vice-President Gibran Rakabuming Raka’s academic credentials is raising questions about the influence of his father, former leader Joko Widodo, as signs of a rift within the country’s ruling elite grow. The challenge comes from within President Prabowo Subianto’s own coalition, underscoring how the political alliance that helped propel him to power in 2024 may be unravelling, analysts have said. It also follows the arrest of a prominent...