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Imagine the strongman leader of a strategic, Western-friendly, Muslim-majority nation blatantly rigging an election to exclude dissident voices from his puppet parliament.

Will There Be a Central Asian Spring?- By Joanna Lillis

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/24/will_there_be_a_central_asian_spring
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/asia-s-new-tripartite-entente Exit from comment view mode. Click to hide this space Comments View/Create comment on this paragraph NEW DELHI – The launch of trilateral strategic consultations among the United States, India, and Japan, and their decision to hold joint naval exercises this year, signals efforts to form an entente among the Asia-Pacific region’s three leading democracies.

Asia’s New Tripartite Entente - Brahma Chellaney - Project Syndicate

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/06/25/fish_story BEIJING – Bad weather was good news in Scarborough Shoal, a contested chain of rocks and reefs in the South China Sea.

Fish Story - By Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt

Exit from comment view mode. Click to hide this space Comments View/Create comment on this paragraph NEW DELHI – From the armed coup that recently ousted the Maldives’ first democratically elected president, Mohamed Nasheed, to the Pakistani Supreme Court’s current effort to undermine a toothless but elected government by indicting Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on contempt charges, South Asia’s democratic advances appear to be shifting into reverse.

"South Asia’s False Spring" by Brahma Chellaney

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/south-asia-s-false-spring
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/return-to-the-arc-of-crisis

"Return to the Arc of Crisis" by Jaswant Singh

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On the surface, Central Asia would appear to be ripe for a popular uprising modeled on the Arab Spring. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/02/17/waiting_for_spring

Waiting for Spring - By Scott Radnitz

Trilateral dialogues come in many forms.

U.S.-Europe-Asia: The new strategic triangle

South Korea

Taiwan

China

Ukraine

Belarus

Afghanistan

Russia

Japan

Back then in 1983, when I began writing about it, I knew only as much as the average Westerner about the Cambodian tragedy. But as I immersed myself in Dith Pran’s story – from thousands of miles away in a flat in Notting Hill, London – it took me under its spell.

Cambodia: beyond the Killing Fields

Friction between Chinese authorities and the five million Tibetans who live within the borders of China is on the rise, and nowhere is the strife more apparent than in the neighboring nation of Nepal.

News Desk: Why Is Nepal Cracking Down on Tibetan Refugees?

Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's storied first prime minister, gave his countrymen two things that elude most developing nations: stability and prosperity.

Overturning Lee Kuan Yew's Legacy in Singapore

The Guardian has a disturbing report on the plight of Alexander Aan, an Indonesian civil servant who is currently in custody and facing an 11-year prison sentence for expressing his atheism on Facebook. In Indonesia, the law guarantees citizens freedom of religion, but only as long as they adhere to Islam, Catholicism, Protestantism, Buddhism, Confucianism or Hinduism. By expressing his atheism Aan - who posted the phrase "God doesn't exist" on a Facebook page – is held to have breached Indonesia's official state philosophy (known as the Pancasila ), which requires citizens to have "Belief in the one and only God".

New Humanist (Rationalist Association) - discussing humanism, rationalism, atheism and free thought

Myanmar

North Korea

India

Pakistan

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