Asia & the Pacific

FILE PHOTO: A general view of the financial Central district in Hong Kong, China July 25, 2019. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu/File Photo

US rescinds special treatment for Hong Kong. What’s next for the island?

Lindsey W. Ford

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

FILE PHOTO: An industrial port is pictured in Tokyo, Japan, May 23, 2019. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

The post COVID-19 world: Economic nationalism triumphant?

Friday, July 10, 2020

A person drives a motorcycle by shipping containers at a port in Keelung, Taiwan, June 10, 2020. REUTERS/Ann Wang

Taiwan faces a changed economic outlook in Asia following COVID-19

Monday, June 29, 2020

Medical personnel arrive in transport aircraft of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force at the Wuhan Tianhe International Airport following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, Hubei province, China February 17, 2020. China Daily via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. CHINA OUT.

China’s post-coronavirus aggression is reshaping Asia

Lindsey W. Ford and Julian Gewirtz

Thursday, June 18, 2020

India's Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers stand guard at a checkpoint along a highway leading to Ladakh, at Gagangeer in Kashmir's Ganderbal district June 17, 2020. REUTERS/Danish Ismail

What’s fueling the India-China border skirmish?

Tanvi Madan and Adrianna Pita

Thursday, June 18, 2020

A view of an explosion of a joint liaison office with South Korea in border town Kaesong, North Korea in this picture supplied by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on June 16, 2020. KCNA via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THIS IMAGE. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. SOUTH KOREA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SOUTH KOREA. - RC2NAH9GE646

Ratcheting up in North-South Korea tensions to come

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

[On Pyongyang's demolition of the joint liaison office] We are going to see a gradual incremental ramping up of tensions.

CNBC Wednesday, June 17, 2020

A view of an explosion of a joint liaison office with South Korea in border town Kaesong, North Korea in this picture supplied by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on June 16, 2020. KCNA via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THIS IMAGE. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. SOUTH KOREA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SOUTH KOREA. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC2NAH9W6YWK

Tensions rise after North Korea blows up liaison office

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Workers are seen on a production line manufacturing masks at a factory in Shanghai, China January 31, 2020. Picture taken January 31, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo

Reopening the World: Lessons from China’s economic reopening

Cheng Li and Chen Jian

Tuesday, June 16, 2020