The Globalist

In view of China’s pin-prick strategy, the world’s third-largest democracy is developing some military teeth.

Three large Asian nations — China, India and Indonesia — are polyphonic and geographically diverse. They all made different choices on their national language.

What it is like being Chinese in Indonesia.

Trauma and historical memory in Germany and Indonesia.

Social cohesion will be critical in this new world of the COVID 19 crisis. Asia’s case proves that social cohesion is Janus-faced, working in two opposite directions.

Beyond the constant strife with the U.S., China’s assertion of global powers runs into increasing resistance even by normally acquiescent Asian nations.

The once reformist President Joko Widodo, now in his second term, gets swallowed up by the bureaucracy and overall Indonesian politics.

Using the Islamic lens is the focus of Western analysis when it comes to assessing Indonesia’s political present and future. This limits proper understanding.

Many young democracies with flawed institutions are struggling not to slide backward. Turkey has failed.

The world’s second- and third-most populous countries share a linguistic diversity.