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The Naegohyang FC women’s football team hoists the trophy after winning the Asian Football Confederation’s women’s club championship in Suwon, South Korea. Credit: Facebook/ FIFA Club Football Last week, North Korea sent a sports team to South Korea for the first time since 2018. What should have been a routine women’s football tournament was instead […]

Australia, Japan, the Philippines, and the United States, conducted a Maritime Cooperative Activity (MCA), April 7, 2024. Credit: U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Liz Dunagan The Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia policy. This […]

Credit: Depositphotos Today on The Diplomat’s Asia Geopolitics podcast host Katie Putz is joined by Jacob Sims, a columnist for The Diplomat, a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s Asia Center, and a leading expert on transnational crime and human rights in Southeast Asia. Sims is the author of a series of essays for The Diplomat […]

A scroll painting of the Kangxi Emperor (r. 1661 – 1722) of the Qing Dynasty, in armor. Credit: Wikimedia Commons On May 22, a trailer for the film “The Belief” (also known as “Peng Hu” – its Chinese title means “Battle of Penghu”) was released on Chinese social media, announcing its release date of July […]

Ala-Too Square, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, summer 2025. Credit: Catherine Putz In mid-May an old debate with deep roots surfaced during a meeting of the Russian-Kyrgyz Expert-Advisory Council on History. The Russian scholars present, after having examined Kyrgyz history textbooks for 8th, 9th, and 10th-grade students, complained about the portrayal of the Soviet Union and the use […]

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Advertisement Asia Global fuel crisis adds urgency to Cambodian push to tap US$300 billion energy resources Cambodia’s energy minister said the oil shock from the Middle East conflict has increased urgency to resolve a long-running maritime dispute with Thailand. FILE PHOTO: The logo of French oil and gas company TotalEnergies is seen at a petrol […]