Asia

A glitch in the matrix

Asia is weighing data-centre ambitions against sustainability

Malaysia and Singapore illustrate the region’s resource balancing act

Going nuclear

Kazakhstan’s referendum on nuclear energy could benefit Russia

The opposition have been barred from campaigning or locked up

Doing the locomotion

New railways could transform South-East Asia

China is keen to assist

A quieter tiger?

Is India’s economy slowing down?

New data highlight old problems

Banyan

Has Narendra Modi lost his mojo?

Two state elections suggest that India’s prime minister is no longer such a vote-winner

Digital domination

America v China: who controls Asia’s internet?

Amid an explosive data and AI boom the superpower contest hots up

An interview with Admiral Tang Hua

China is using an “anaconda strategy” to squeeze Taiwan

Taiwan’s navy commander warns that his forces are increasingly strained

No longer showing up

America is losing South-East Asia to China

President Joe Biden will not attend this year’s East Asia Summit

Putting the AI in Mumbai

India has a unique opportunity to lead in AI

Its development will be unlike China’s or America’s

The outsider otaku

Japan’s new prime minister is his own party’s sternest critic

This could make it harder for Ishiba Shigeru to govern effectively

Japan’s new leader

Ishiba Shigeru will become Japan’s next prime minister

The maverick won his fifth bid for leadership of the ruling party

Going soft

Has the Quad lost its way?

Critics say the loose coalition is lowering its ambitions