REGIONAL ASIA

By Rajaram Gautam After nearly five decades of diplomaticrelations with Nepal, North Korea has decided to close its embassy in

By Patrick Yeager, USG Long an afterthought, Balochistan – Pakistan’s largest province geographically yet its smallest in terms of population

By Olivier Guitta Two years ago, Taiwan was a purely Chinese issue but the invasion by Russia of Ukraine and

By Paul Davis On November 16th, the U.S. Justice Department announced that a Chinese spy was sentenced to 20 years

By Thomas A. Marks & David H. Ucko With the United States having shifted its defense emphasis to peer and

By Elena Pokalova Sharing a border with a territory experiencing an insurgency poses numerous risks for the government. Neighboring violence

By Olivier Guitta When Xi Jinping came to power in China in 2013, he made crystal clear that he was

Recent political violence in Nepal by the radical Chand aka Biplav faction should not have come as a surprise. Behind the national self-congratulation at ending the insurgency in November 2006 through negotiation, all Maoist factions continued to use terrorism to ensure the outcome of polls and to dominate local areas, thus to recruit and amass the funds needed for political action. In fact, turning a blind-eye to such violence has been a hallmark of the post-conflict order.