Asia

China Claims Japanese Defense White Paper Exposes Intentions For Remilitarization

August 9, 2026 Abdul Rahman, BreakThrough News. Educate! Asia, China, Japan, Wars and Militarism

China officially objected to references of Taiwan and invocations of alleged “China threats” in this year’s Japanese defense white paper. China also claims the document is proof of the growing re-militarization of Japan, which threatens peace and stability in the region. “The Defense of Japan 2026 White Paper once again targeted China with groundless accusations, rehashing the so-called ‘China threat’ and grossly interfering in China’s internal affairs with brazen comments on China’s Taiwan region,” Lin Jian, official spokesperson of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in a regular press conference on Wednesday, August 5.

The Ruins Of Neoliberalism And Militarism In Asia

July 21, 2026 Sudhanva Deshpande, BreakThrough News. Strategize! Asia, Conference, Cuba, Debt, Far Right, militarism

“All along the Sri Lankan coast, you’ll see old forts. These are the forts of the various colonial powers – the Portuguese, the Dutch, and the English. They are in ruins. There are now proposals to restore them and beautify them for tourism purposes. But actually, they should be left just as they are, ruins. Because that is the only true legacy that colonialism deserves in Sri Lanka.” Dr. Ahilan Kadirgamar, senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka made this striking statement at the “Hands Off Asia” Conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Colombo Conference: ‘Hands Off Asia Means Socialism Today’

July 17, 2026 BreakThrough News. Organize! Asia, Militarization, Socialism, Sovereignty

Asia is home to about 60% of the world’s population and is increasingly the motor of the world’s economy. The continent also has a long tradition of revolutionary national liberation struggles and left and progressive movements. Today the people and governments of Asia today find themselves in the crosshairs of a New Cold War, gasping for breath under the yoke of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and bearing the burden of tens of thousands of US troops stationed in close to 400 bases spread across the region. In this context, what does genuine sovereignty mean for the people of the continent, and how can progressive organizations join hands to construct this sovereignty?

Protests Break Out Across South Asia Against Iran War

March 3, 2026 Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch. Resist! Asia, Assassination, Iran, Wars and Militarism

Governments in South Asia are facing significant public criticism for their failure to outright condemn the US-Israeli assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and their joint unprovoked war against Iran. Khamenei was widely regarded as the most important spiritual leader of the Shia faith across the world. Spontaneous mass mobilizations were recorded all across the region on Sunday, March 1, after the news broke of Khamenei’s assassination. More such protests have been called for Monday and Tuesday. Over a dozen Pakistanis were killed when security forces opened fire at demonstrations at US consulates and other foreign offices in Karachi, Lahore, and Skartu on Sunday.

Strategic Convergences Between Africa, Asia And Latin America

December 7, 2025 Mohamed Lamine Kaba, Orinoco Tribune. Strategize! Africa, ALBA, Asia, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), BRICS, Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), Imperialism, Latin America, Neo-Imperialism, Neocolonialism, US Hegemony

The current shift in the world order reveals a deep tension. While the West, weakened by its internal crises and geopolitical contradictions, is trying to preserve its declining leadership, Africa, Asia and Latin America are quietly rebuilding the lines of force of the Global South. Driven by shared memories of domination and renewed aspirations for sovereignty, these regions are now forging strategic convergences that are giving new meaning to tricontinental solidarity. In this context, their struggles against neocolonialism and neo-imperialism are taking on decisive importance in redefining the balance of power in the 21st century and opening up new prospects for their common future.

The World Economy’s Centre Of Gravity Shifts To Asia

October 31, 2025 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! APEC, Asia, China, Global Economy, History

On the last day of October 2025, leaders from the 21 nations of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum will meet in the city of Gyeongju in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) for the organisation’s 33rd summit. Since its founding in 1989 in Canberra, Australia, APEC has promoted building a zone of ‘free and open trade’ – a concept outlined by the Bogor Goals, which came out of the summit in Indonesia in 1994. APEC is a creature of its times. First, it emerged as an instrument of Japan’s Pacific Economic Cooperation Council with the goal of building regional supply chains after the Plaza Accord (1985) appreciated the yen against the dollar.

What Is APEC?

August 25, 2025 Dae-Han Song, People's Dispatch. Strategize! APEC, ASEAN, Asia, China, Economics, Free Trade Zone, Hong Kong, Japan, Multipolar World, Multipolarity, Taiwan

If you look at the news, the media treats the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum more like a gala than a policy forum about regional economic policies. Despite high level meetings having occurred between the government and business interests (i.e., the APEC Business Advisory Committee), despite two senior official meetings having taken place, the media has done a negligible job of bringing the agenda and discussions in these meetings to public consciousness or debate. Instead, it has mostly focused on who will be there – K-pop megastar G-Dragon was named APEC Ambassador – or whether the accommodations and infrastructure are adequate.

When The Empire Chokes, The South Breathes

August 22, 2025 Prince Kapone, Orinoco Tribune. Strategize! Africa, Asia, BRICS, Capitalism, Global South, Globalization, Inequality, Middle East, Political economy, South America, US Imperialism

The story they sell is that “order” was built by reasoned men in sensible suits. The story we live is different. Multipolarity did not grow out of seminars or summits; it is the aftershock of five centuries of plunder, the recoil from wars and sanctions, and the refusal of the colonized to keep paying for someone else’s civilization. Its genealogy runs from the Bandung Communiqué (1955)—the first great gathering where the majority of humanity spoke in its own name—through the long detour of debt, structural adjustment, and counter-insurgency masquerading as “development.” Bandung’s promise was simple and subversive: sovereignty, peaceful coexistence, cooperation, and a say in the world economy for those who actually make the world economy run.

Western Narratives On War And Unrest In Syria

July 15, 2025 The Black Alliance for Peace. Educate! Asia, Syria, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

In March 2025, Syria witnessed horrific sectarian massacres by government-backed forces targeting Alawites in the country’s northwest coastal regions. Since the violent takeover of the Syrian government by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in November/December 2024, nearly 8,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed. HTS, far from being an independent actor, functions as a proxy force advancing the geopolitical interests of the United States, Israel, and their allies, whose primary goal is to destabilize the region and maintain control over its resources. Damascus governor Maher Marwan indicates that HTS wants peace with Israel, while Israel’s destruction of Syria’s armed forces and anti-air defenses after HTS’s takeover of Damascus has elicited seemingly no criticism, let alone an armed response from Syria’s new rulers.

Despite The Pain In The World, Socialism Is Not A Distant Utopia

June 20, 2025 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! Africa, Asia, Global South, Imperialis, Latin America, m, Multipolar World, Socialism

Every morning, I open the newspapers (now on apps rather than print) and read about atrocities taking place across the world. There is an inflation of pain, from the genocide in Gaza to the war in Sudan and the unreported chaotic violence in and around Myanmar. These conflicts seem interminable and might even confuse the casual observer who does not follow them closely. The current phase of Sudan’s war began in April 2023, with the Sudanese Armed Forces (led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan) arrayed against the Rapid Support Forces (led by Commander Mohamed ‘Hemedti’ Hamdan Dagalo).

China-Central Asia Summit Concludes With Call For Multipolar World Order

June 19, 2025 Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch. Create! Asia, Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Central Asia, China, Global South, Multipolar World, Regional cooperation, Xi Jinping

The second China-Central Asian summit concluded in Astana, Kazakhstan on Tuesday with countries signing a treaty on eternal good neighborliness, friendship, and cooperation as well as a joint Astana declaration. The summit was attended by Chinese President Xi Jinping and the five Cental Asian presidents, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan (the host country, Sadyr Japarov of Kyrgyzstan, Emomali Rahmon of Tajikistan, Serdar Berdimuhamedov of Turkmenistan, and Shavkat Mirziyoyev of Uzbekistan. The Astana declaration, signed by all the participants, talks about enhancing cooperation in agriculture, energy, technology and transport sectors apart from intensifying cooperation on the global platforms with a common objective of upholding the basic principles of the UN charter and developing a joint stand against hegemonic politics.

China-Celac Forum Brings Latin America And China Together

May 14, 2025 Telesur, Orinoco Tribune. Create! Asia, CELAC, China, Global Economy, Latin America, Trade

Ten years after its creation, the China-CELAC Forum has consolidated its position as one of the most relevant platforms for dialogue between Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia. “The platform has strengthened cooperation between CELAC members and China, based on sovereign equality, mutual respect, plurality, and shared benefits,” states the meeting’s final joint declaration. Under the theme “Planning development and revitalization together, jointly building a China-LAC community with a shared future,” the meeting brought together representatives from more than 30 countries and leaders such as Xi Jinping (China), Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Brazil), Gustavo Petro (Colombia), and Gabriel Boric (Chile).

Workers In South Asia Celebrated May Day

May 4, 2025 Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch. Resist! Asia, Global South, May Day, Working Class

Thousands of workers took to the streets in different parts of South Asia to celebrate International Workers’ Day on Thursday, May 1. A sea of red flags and chants of “workers of the world unite” and “long live the martyrs of Chicago” reverberated in the atmosphere. Workers in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, and elsewhere marched in discipline and raised the demands for fair wages, better working conditions, and employment rights for everyone. They reiterated their resolve to fight against capitalist exploitation and to create an alternative socialist world, extending their solidarity to the anti-imperialist movements across the world.

Close The US Military Bases In Asia

April 22, 2025 Jeffrey D. Sachs, Scheer Post. Educate! Asia, Japan, Korea, Military bases, US Foreign Bases, US Imperialism

President Donald Trump is again loudly complaining that the US military bases in Asia are too costly for the US to bear. As part of the new round of tariff negotiations with Japan and Korea, Trump is calling on Japan and Korea to pay for stationing the US troops. Here’s a much better idea: close the bases and return the US servicemen to the US. Trump implies that the US is providing a great service to Japan and Korea by stationing 50,000 troops in Japan and nearly 30,000 in Korea. Yet these countries do not need the US to defend themselves. They are wealthy and can certainly provide their own defense.

Birthing A New International Order

April 15, 2025 Jeffrey D. Sachs, Consortium News. Educate! African Union (AU), Asia, China, G20, History, India, Latin America, Multipolar World, NATO, Russia, United Nations (UN)

Writing in his cell as a political prisoner in fascist Italy after World War I, the philosopher Antonio Gramsci famously declared: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” A century later, we are in another interregnum, and the morbid symptoms are everywhere. The U.S.-led order has ended, but the multipolar world is not yet born. The urgent priority is to give birth to a new multilateral order that can keep the peace and the path to sustainable development. We are at the end of a long wave of human history that commenced with the voyages of Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama more than 500 years ago.

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