Asia

A grim death toll accompanies long-running protests.

The Maori term “tangata whenua” conveys a powerful relationship with the land.

A recent book shows how threats to democracy were apparent from the prime minister’s earliest beginnings.

India’s film industry is under growing pressure to bend its knee to Hindu nationalists.

Fights about the party’s past are serious business in Beijing.

Rebuilding U.S. standing requires an end to backing militants abroad.

International terrorist organizations long considered Beijing a secondary focus. That’s changed.

The Taliban takeover has pushed many Afghans over the border and into another kind of limbo.

Internal U.N. documents detail the burden foreign envoys face from sanctions and a stiflingly controlling government in Pyongyang.

Outsiders might see a peaking power, but China’s leaders don’t.

Peng Shuai’s disappearance has mobilized the international community—and puts China’s Olympic dreams under even more scrutiny.

Deeper U.S. engagement comes as the wisdom of strategic ambiguity is increasingly questioned.

The United States can play a key role in civilian nuclear aid.

Not for the first time, the U.S. president misspoke about the island at the center of U.S.-China tensions.

Relaxing restrictions on the Punjab border could lead to a bigger shift as both sides recalibrate relations.

Months after the coup, Beijing seeks stability—and protections for its investments—above all.

One of the world’s biggest trade barriers is also a tool of censorship.

Breakthroughs remain elusive, but both sides agreed on need to manage tensions.