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3 posts tagged asia.
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Two suspended death sentences and the long shadow over Xi
Beijing's quiet sentencing of two former defence ministers reads less like anti-corruption housekeeping than a warning about how brittle the apex has become.
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Modi takes Bengal, and the slow death of regional India
The BJP's capture of West Bengal is less a personal triumph for Narendra Modi than the further consolidation of an Indian politics in which regional identity is being absorbed into the national party.
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Takaichi's constitutional gamble
Japan's first female prime minister wants to revise Article 9, and the largest pacifist protest in a generation has answered her — but the strategic logic of the moment is hers, not the marchers'.