أخبار Thai ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra granted royal pardon to mark queen’s birthday يونيو 3, 2026 شؤون آسيوية Thailand’s former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has met the conditions for a royal pardon as part of clemency measure marking the queen’s birthday, the justice minister said on Wednesday. Thaksin,…
أخبار China launches investigation of county chief months after he inspected fatal coal mine يونيو 3, 2026 شؤون آسيوية A county-level Communist Party chief in China’s central Shanxi province was put under disciplinary review, 11 days after a deadly gas explosion at a local mine killed 82 people and…
أخبار Tesla’s China sales surge to 2026 high, but rivals crowd the rear-view mirror يونيو 3, 2026 شؤون آسيوية Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory recorded its strongest monthly deliveries of the year in May as a broader recovery in China’s electric vehicle market gathered pace, although the US carmaker is likely…
أخبار The Quad’s new agenda: ports, cables and minerals يونيو 3, 2026 شؤون آسيوية The most consequential Indo-Pacific development last week may not have been the speeches delivered at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. More significant were the decisions announced days earlier at the…
أخبار When AI speaks in the name of God يونيو 3, 2026 شؤون آسيوية I (Adam) am chatting with the “Apostle Stephen”, an online chatbot created by the Redeemed Christian Church of God, a church founded in Nigeria in the 1950s with a growing…
أخبار America’s big chance to roll China out of the Solomons يونيو 3, 2026 شؤون آسيوية Admiral Samuel Paparo commands USINDOPACOM, home to over 300,000 sailors, soldiers, airmen and marines in an area of operations extending from the US west coast to India. Paparo also has…
أخبار Markets are misreading Nvidia’s latest move يونيو 3, 2026 شؤون آسيوية Investors have spent the last three years asking who will build artificial intelligence (AI). Nvidia built the chips, Microsoft built the platforms, Amazon, Google and Meta built the infrastructure. Investors…
أخبار When national security becomes market logic يونيو 3, 2026 شؤون آسيوية In recent weeks, Japan halted South Korean equity firm MBK Partners’ acquisition of machine-tool manufacturer Makino Milling Machine on national security grounds. Around the same time, the British government reportedly…
أخبار Israel’s Lebanon campaign: the risks of repeating failed lessons يونيو 3, 2026 شؤون آسيوية Going into the war in Iran, the Israeli government seemingly had two intertwined goals: to bring down the Islamic Republic and rid Israel of its Hezbollah problem. The logic went…
أخبار Trump says troops turned back from Beirut after Netanyahu call يونيو 3, 2026 شؤون آسيوية Shortly after reporting emerged Monday that Iran was suspending talks with the United States over Israel’s ramped up assault on Lebanon, President Donald Trump claimed that Israeli forces headed toward Beirut have “turned back” and that Hezbollah has agreed…