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North Korea may be counting too much on its nuclear weapons program and getting its way through “negotiation through strength,” explains Kim Yoo-chul for the Korea Times. An opening for normalization of relations provided by South Korea and the United States will only last so long, suggests South Korea analysts, with professor of international relations Leif-Eric Easley suggesting that holding...

China leads in pork consumption, and its pig population is the world’s largest. Over the past year, the nation has battled African swine fever among its stock. With the United States and China embroiled in trade talks, the epidemic is another major disruption for the industry. The only solution is for farmers to cull their herds with humane procedures and avoid cross-contamination with...

China and India at times engage in a process of mythmaking and historical erasure in championing their thousands of years of history. A recent article for the Economist observes, “Nowhere more than in Asia do states and their rulers tend to think they represent not just, say, defined territories or peoples with a shared language, but rather whole civilizations, often cosmically ordained.” However...