Taiwan has surpassed Singapore as the happiest place in Asia, according to the World Happiness Report. But what do residents ...

Democracy in Asia is rapidly deteriorating—accelerated by waning international support and democratic backsliding even in the ...

Japan’s politics are in flux. With the LDP losing ground and voter behavior evolving, political expert Tobias Harris dissects ...

Trump’s order to cut funding to Voice of America and several other pro-democracy media outlets has drawn widespread criticism ...

In recent weeks, we seem to have been wrestling with the very idea of democracy. After all, our political system has passed ...

A brewing shift toward religious conservatism has emerged from the political vacuum in this country of 175 million people.

A single witty, scene-stealing figure amid a sea of demonstrators can become a spark — amplifying the protest’s message and ...

Having awoken Thursday to news of a long-awaited and long-feared new U.S. tariff regime, key American allies in East Asia ...

Large global powers set the tectonic shifts of geopolitics in motion. Small players have always had to figure out how to ...

Over the past five to seven years, democracy and rights have been on a downward slide in nearly every country in Asia that is either a mature, long-lasting democracy or something close to it.

China is best placed to replace the United States as a key foreign donor in Asia but may be reluctant to fully fill the void, ...