President Trump’s focus overseas may spare China for now, but Beijing still worries that his “America First” rhetoric hasn’t softened what it calls U.S. “military adventurism.”
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Five key takeaways from Trump’s week in Asia
President Trump is back in Washington after spending a week in Asia. He attended the ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur, addressed U.S. troops in Japan and met with China’s President Xi Jinping in South Korea.
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With U.S. leadership in doubt, can its allies chart their own course?
U.S. allies in Europe and the Indo-Pacific are showing willingness to coordinate and cooperate across a wide range of shared interests, from trade to defense and alliance management to China.
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As arms race in Asia intensifies, a-bomb survivors make final plea for peace
While atomic bomb survivors warn the catastrophic risks, leaders of nuclear-armed states and self-proclaimed ‘realists’ argue that the deterrence of nuclear weapons is what keeps them from being deployed.
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Hiroshima survivors fear rising nuclear threat on the 80th anniversary of atomic bombing
With the number of survivors rapidly declining and their average age now exceeding 86, this year’s anniversary is considered the last milestone event for many of them.
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NPR photos around the world that moved us in 2024
There have been touching moments — sometimes away from the headlines, and the front lines — that have moved the world this year.
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How hopes for Myanmar’s democracy faded and why leadership is needed (again)
Former U.S. Ambassador Derek Mitchell argues the United States should assert its leadership in helping shape Myanmar’s peaceful, just and democratic future.
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People power’s unfinished work: Can Bangladesh be an exception?
The Wilson Center’s Michael Kugelman says that for many Bangladeshis, a successful youth-led mass movement has shattered a long malaise and kindled a newfound optimism about the country’s future.
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Ex-general Prabowo Subianto claims victory in Indonesia’s presidential election
Prabowo, who had been barred from entering the U.S. for two decades for alleged human rights abuses, has the backing of the current president.
