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How Indonesia's oligarchs turned democracy to their advantage

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Inside the education system moulding Afghanistan's next generation

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How middle powers navigate economic pressure from the world’s giants

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Rethinking empire, extraction and identity in the Pacific: A New History

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Principle or pragmatism in Indonesia’s foreign policy choices?

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Citizens of nowhere: how climate change is creating a new generation of the stateless

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Compound Capitalism: Inside Southeast Asia's Fraud Factories

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How are rice farmers faring in the Philippines?

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Can India maintain strategic autonomy in the Trump 2.0 era?

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Indonesia under Prabowo—promises, protests, and power

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Navigating East Asian names in a Western world

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Profit, Politics, and the Future of Indonesia's Rainforests

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How governments in Asia juggle the pros and cons of AI

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How Chinese international students navigate their experience in Australia

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Can ethnic minority languages co-exist with Mandarin in China?

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The risks and rewards of engaging with Afghanistan's Taliban government

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Why Central Asia is key to unlocking China's global ambitions

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The Chinese Civil War's lingering shadow over modern China

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The Korean language abroad: Who's learning it and why?

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Troubled Waters: The Philippines' Maritime Standoff with China

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Demography and deathcare in a changing East Asia

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Trickle-down tensions: The hydropolitics of transboundary river systems in Asia

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Is Indonesia's labor movement stuck in neutral?

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Searching for work-life balance in South Korea

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What to watch for in India during Narendra Modi's third term as prime minister

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How China safeguards its interests amid conflict in Myanmar

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The geopolitics of undersea cables in the Indo-Pacific

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As Vietnam scales the global value chain, what does it mean for its workers?

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The outsized influence of the military in Pakistan’s politics

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Iran’s strategy of outsourcing warfare in the Middle East

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What China's ambitions in Pakistan mean for Baloch aspirations and identity

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How will Indonesia fare under new president Prabowo Subianto?

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As ethnic tensions rise, is there any real prospect of an inclusive Malaysia?

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China wants to remake global governance – is the world ready for it?

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Taiwan through the eyes of mainland Chinese writers and filmmakers

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How the future of Indonesia's peatlands will shape climate change

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Managing caste discrimination in the workplace

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China's Pacific push: Assessing the impact on island nations

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Aid under fire: The dilemmas facing humanitarian actors in strife-torn Myanmar

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Vietnam's balancing act with powers great and near

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The legacy of the War on Terror for Muslims in the West

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Minding Xi’s business: How commercial enterprises navigate China’s political landscape

43

How do Cambodia’s ever closer ties with China affect Southeast Asia?

44

India's long and winding road to affordable and accessible healthcare

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What Erdoğan’s staying power means for the future of Türkiye

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Gauging the health of democracy in the Philippines under Bongbong Marcos

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Why Taiwan leads the rest of Asia in recognising LGBTQ+ rights

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All at sea: Contending with maritime disputes in the South China Sea and beyond

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How a Taliban-ruled Afghanistan affects security in the region

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Policing political discourse in Malaysia

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How Australia's future depends on better understanding Asia

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Policy reversals and political impact in China

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The future of Taiwan-China relations: Is the status quo the best option?

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Singing songs of rebels, rice and romance in China’s lower Yangtze Delta

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A changed Hong Kong under China’s national security law

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Who wants to be Indonesia’s next president?

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The rise and rise of halal consumerism in Indonesia

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What a Taliban theocracy means for Afghanistan

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How can Sri Lanka continue to hedge between India and China?

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What will it take to end the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan?

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The human cost of South Korea’s era of transnational adoption

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Contrasting memories of Japanese colonisation in Korea and Taiwan

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Mindful of power: Politics and nationalism in Buddhist-majority societies

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How China finds a home for 1.4 billion people

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Getting China-Australia relations out of a rut

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Thailand's simmering political discontent

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Ending the cycle of political disarray in Malaysia

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India's two-way bet on the US-Russia divide

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Islamic finance in a fintech future

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Pachinko: Korean fates and fortunes in Japan

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Anxiety and aspiration in Japan-China relations

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Beyond Squid Game: Translating Asian film and TV for a hungry global market

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Decision making and dissent in the Chinese Communist Party

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Growing the Australia-India relationship

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Was Donald Trump on the money about China?

76

Indonesia's evolving post-pandemic political landscape

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Weighing up the legacy of Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte

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Intimate connections and exit strategies in a changing Japan

79

The political battle over health policy in Indonesia

80

Law and disorder in China-Australia relations

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Is democracy at risk in India?

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Framing and shaming body size in Japan

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Who's fighting for the environment in China?

84

Caste and the corporation, in India and abroad

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How seriously does Australia take the learning of Asian languages?

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What growing China-Russia ties mean for the world order

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Australia caught in the escalating US-China rivalry

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Federalism to the rescue in ethnically divided Asian societies

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Pakistan, the Taliban, and the future of Afghanistan

90

Traitors and treason in the collective Chinese imagination

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India's soft power push with vaccine diplomacy

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Sexual citizenship and Asian migration to Australia

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Migrants from China grappling with acceptance in Australia

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The fate of China's many languages

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Can Australia do better in its relations with China?

96

Why the outrage over Indonesia's new job creation law?

97

How will Hong Kong march to China's new drum?

98

Who decides who's Muslim in modern Islamic states?

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India and China jousting for control on the roof of the world

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At what cost Turkey's foreign adventurism?