A major redrawing of the map of the South China Sea began when Xi Jinping came to power in 2012. In the subsequent three years China built seven new bases in the Spratly Islands, three of them ...

In recent decades, China has built up its influence among India’s neighbors. The inhabitants of the region themselves are not clamoring for stronger ties. Indeed, a shared history and cultural ...

The majority of ethnic Uzbeks who now live in northern Afghanistan settled there in the 1920s and 1930s due to Central Asia’s “Basmachi” nationalist movement and the Soviet policies of ...

South Asia, as a conceptual aggregate of people and cultures, is vast. By some definitions, it spans eight countries and encompasses nearly 2 billion people.

China’s BRI Is Aggravating Ethnic Tensions in the Global South Pakistan’s CPEC is a case study in Chinese investment further disenfranchising ethnic minority groups – in this case, the Baloch.

In 2019, the most recent normal year for travel, tourism supported more than 42m jobs in South-East Asia, or 13% of total employment, and contributed 12% of GDP. The UN reckons regional GDP may ...

Update: A professor who studies race and ethnic conflict responds to this map. Ethnicity, like race, is a social construct, but it's still a construct with significant implications for the world ...

The map shows active fires in the ethnic Georgian villages on August 10, 12, 13, 17, 19 and 22, well after active hostilities ended in the area on August 10.