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Helping you better understand the national security and domestic policy choices facing Asia nations.

We focus on geopolitical realities and domestic constraints — not personalities and empty rhetoric.

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Need To Know: June 3

The news shaping policy.

  1. Has China Driven India To America Alliance?

  2. India’s Small Business Catastrophe

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Need To Know: May 31

Special Edition

China’s lashing out at the world.

Does the show of strength mask weakness?

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Need To Know: May 27

The news shaping policy.

1) HK Police Preempt Protests

2) HK Lawyers: China Can’t Impose Controversial Law

3) Most Americans Would Pay More To Not Buy Chinese

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Need To Know: May 20

The news shaping policy.

  1. Has Trump Killed Huawei?

  2. China Retaliates Against Australia

  3. India and China Border Clashes

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Need To Know: May 17

The news shaping policy.

  1. India’s Covid-19 Stimulus

  2. Trump Stops Pension’s Chinese Investment

  3. Laos: Battery Of Southeast Asia Low On Juice

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Need To Know: May 13

The news shaping policy

  1. India’s Shocking Economic Crash

  2. Feeling Heat On Covid, China Snaps

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Need To Know: May 10

The news shaping policy.

  1. How China Undermines Democracy

  2. Australia’s Weekly Shutdown Cost

  3. Cambodia Uses Covid To Crackdown

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Need To Know: May 6

Special Edition

When Rhetoric Matters: America’s Tough Talk on China and Covid-19

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Need To Know: May 3

The news shaping policy.

  1. Turkey’s Looming Economic Crisis

  2. Did EU Change China Report?

  3. Kim Reappears

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Need To Know: April 29

The news shaping policy.

  1. Japan’s “Game Changing” Missile

  2. China’s Surging Russian Oil Buys

  3. China’s Cybersecurity Law Targets Foreign Firms

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Need To Know: April 26

The news shaping policy.

  1. Kim Watch

  2. China Exodus Begins?

  3. Hong Kong Bookstore Closed By China Reopens In Taiwan

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Wrong Kong Part 6

Public health care is one of the few good things Hong Kongers get from their government. But it’s crumbling

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Need to Know: April 22

The news shaping policy.

  1. What Beijing’s Aggressive Tactics Mean In Hong Kong

  2. Missouri Sues China

  3. Kim Jong’s Health and America’s “Brain Dead” Media

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