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The fuzzy goodwill between Biden and America’s Asian allies will soon be tested by China’s growing power.

The current conflict is the latest battle in a long-running war over the country’s identity as a unitary or federal state. The United States can restore its credibility as an honest broker by helping resolve it.

Western and regional powers are more divided than they were during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, but they can still exert influence to prevent the fragmentation of Ethiopia’s federal system.

Missing in the current U.S. debate on China is the question of Asian nationalism and how the United States could profitably align with it.

China’s rise has pushed Silicon Valley away from the values it once claimed to hold.

Even as they struggle to control the pandemic, governments should move quickly to reopen borders instead of giving in to xenophobia, nationalism, and illusions of autarky.

Nationalist media and pandemic fears have caused hatred to go viral.

The new national security measures won’t be the end of Beijing’s belligerence.

The pandemic has provided fresh opportunity for Hindu nationalists to beat down an already disadvantaged minority group.

A February gathering in Rome outlined a muddled vision for the future, claiming the mantle of Ronald Reagan and St. John Paul II while indulging the far-right.

For Indian Muslims forced from their homes by mob violence, not even displaced persons camps can protect them now.

The outbreak has been a gift to nativist nationalists and protectionists, and it is likely to have a long-term impact on the free movement of people and goods.

As protests against a new citizenship law sweep the country, signs that the authorities are condoning and even instigating violence have India’s Muslims alarmed.

After decades of militant radicalism, Sinn Fein won last week’s elections by moving toward the mainstream.

“Jai Shri Ram” was meant to be a celebration of a Hindu deity. But the phrase is turning into hate speech—and a dog whistle for attacks on Muslims.

The Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister has disbanded Africa’s largest political party in an effort to reinvent the country’s politics—but some powerful players stand to lose, and they won’t go quietly.

Mired in the unpopular Brexit process, the Tories will have to convince voters that the union is worth it to keep hotly contested seats.

And the United States should be worried.

Oromo nationalism helped bring Abiy Ahmed to power, but it could also be his undoing. To hold the country together, the Nobel-winning prime minister needs to convince various ethnic groups that he and his new party represent all Ethiopians.

Hong Kong’s unique identity threatens Xi Jinping’s rhetoric of greatness.