Asia - International Action Center

By Joshua Hanks April 27, 2020 The Lao People’s Democratic Republic, referred to as the Lao PDR or Laos, has not recorded [...]

North Vietnamese troops ride through Saigon on a tank in April 1975. Forty-five years ago on April 30, 1975, the United [...]

By Deirdre Griswold April 14, 2020 Because China is the most populous country in the world, and also the first to become [...]

By Joshua Hanks April 8, 2020 The coronavirus pandemic has started to reveal stark differences in the emergency responses of [...]

By Sara Flounders April 3, 2020 The global COVID-19 viral pandemic has exposed in the sharpest light the contradiction [...]

By Deirdre Griswold April 2, 2020 On Feb. 10, Donald Trump sent Congress a budget request for the coming fiscal year that [...]

By Joshua Hanks April 2, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has affected almost every region of the world. The speed at which it [...]

By Betsey Piette March 17, 2020 Amid the fight against the coronavirus COVID-19, China called on March 16 for the immediate [...]

By Deirdre Griswold March 17, 2020 March 16 — The stock market collapsed today. The Dow Jones Industrial Average of stock [...]

By Joshua Hanks March 16, 2020 A stamp from China circa 1973 commemorates the “barefoot doctors” who brought health [...]