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Another Tiger Falls in China’s Anti-Corruption Campaign
20+ hour, 47+ min ago (608+ words) On June 30, the state-owned People’s Daily announced that Ma had been expelled from the Chinese Communist Party and dismissed as a member of the National People’s Congress. Ma’s ill-gotten gains were confiscated and he faces trial, People’s Daily added. He…...
The Subcontinent’s Philosophical Rupture
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (311+ words) Asia Sentinel The Subcontinent’s Philosophical Rupture The Afghanistan-Pakistan conflict is redrawing South Asia’s power map The relationship between Pakistan and Afghanistan has officially shifted from fragile diplomacy into an outbreak of direct confrontation and open war. Since February 27, when Pakistan’s…...
Can Small Modular Reactors Make Nuclear Work in Southeast Asia?
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (826+ words) Asia Sentinel Can Small Modular Reactors Make Nuclear Work in Southeast Asia? Regional governments have begun exploring the possibility For decades, nuclear power has occupied an uneasy place in Southeast Asia’s energy future. Governments periodically embraced it whenever electricity demand…...
Press Still 0, Singapore Government Unanimous in Court
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (220+ words) The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders condemned the ruling as a “textbook SLAPP suit against @Bloomberg and journalist #LowDeWei” and demanded that authorities “end their legal harassment of trustworthy journalists.” SLAPP (strategic lawsuits against public participation) are lawsuits intended to censor,…...
Vietnam–Japan: Strategic Trust Without an Alliance
6+ day, 9+ hour ago (241+ words) In early June, General Uchikura Hiroaki, Japan’s joint staff chief, met in Hanoi with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense Phan Van Giang and General Staff Chief Nguyen Tan Cuong to strengthen bilateral defense and security ties, the…...
A Jolting Autopsy on Malaysia’s Recent Elections
6+ day, 22+ hour ago (253+ words) The country got neither, signaled almost immediately when Anwar appointed the scandal-scarred United Malays National Organization’s President Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, literally on trial at the time for looting his own charitable organization, as his deputy prime minister. The charges mysteriously…...
China Deepens Economic Integration with Central Asia
1+ week, 3+ day ago (89+ words) Asia Sentinel China Deepens Economic Integration with Central Asia Middle East crisis reinforces that economic resilience now depends on diversifying across multiple trade routes The crisis in the Middle East has reinforced for China that, amid ongoing geopolitical fragmentation, economic…...
Malaysia’s Anwar Faces Royal Upheaval
1+ week, 3+ day ago (258+ words) Reported interference by royal families, infuriating members of his government, could force Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to call for an early general election by year-end despite holding a 68 percent super-majority in the 222-seat parliament. Powerful states like Sarawak, which…...
Where Have All The Soldiers Gone?
1+ week, 4+ day ago (82+ words) Asia Sentinel Where Have All The Soldiers Gone? Falling birthrights cut into Asian militaries' numbers of boots on the ground With fertility rates hitting record lows in Asian-Pacific states including China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and Singapore, the looming demographic…...
Australia’s Grand Nuclear Submarine-Fleet Plan
1+ week, 5+ day ago (487+ words) With Australia eventually basing up to 18 nuclear-powered attack submarines, the naval balance in the Indo-Pacific will be significantly changed to the detriment of China’s territorial ambitions, observers have told Asia Sentinel. “The looming start of rotation at HMAS Stirling increases…...