The Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is now at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to the nominal marker for the end of the world.
Nancy Snow

Guardrails are needed as new nuclear arms race gets underway

Doomsday Clock has never been closer to midnight

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A Unification Church mass wedding in Gapyeong, South Korea in 2020: Thousands of Japanese female believers are still in South Korea with their Korean husbands.
Yoshihide Sakurai

Japan is not putting the Unification Church out of business

Politicians have yet to put protections in place for vulnerable members of society

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Yoshihide Sakurai
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A sugar cane juice vendor in Mumbai: Restraining sugar prices can incentivize domestic overuse of sugar and carry costly health consequences.
Prerna Sharma Singh

India has no good reason to hoard sugar

Even if prices rise, ending export restrictions will have positive effects

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Prerna Sharma Singh
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Regional business leaders looking to make deals are expected to descend on San Francisco for the APEC CEO Summit that will be held in parallel with the official APEC meetings.
Kurt Tong

The U.S. is out of sync with APEC priorities

Asian leaders coming to San Francisco summit will be looking to make trade deals

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Kurt Tong
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There is no indication that Cambodia will be left with unserviceable debts even if traffic at Siem Reap-Angkor International Airport falls well short of projections. (Photo by Jean-Marc F. Blanchard)
Jean-Marc F. Blanchard

New airport shows Cambodia can get what it wants from China

Siem Reap hub proves there is more to the BRI than debt traps

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Jean-Marc F. Blanchard
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BYD's Seal, a pure electric sedan, is on display at the Japan Mobility Show 2023 in Tokyo on Oct. 27. (Photo by Yuki Kohara)
SHIN NAKAYAMA

Letter from Nikkei Asia's editor: The rise and rise of BYD

Shin Nakayama shares his weekly reflections and recommendations

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SHIN NAKAYAMA
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A Tesla Bot is displayed at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai in July: China is unlikely to be a challenger to U.S. tech supremacy for a long time.
Nina Xiang

Chinese AI is not the threat the U.S. thinks it is

In measuring the impact of innovation, quality matters far more than quantity

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Nina Xiang
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Household financial savings can be encouraged in India by ensuring easy access to banking services.
Jaydeep Mukherjee and Puneet Kumar Arora

India cannot afford to let its savings rate keep slipping

Economy in need of more funds to support investment

Jaydeep Mukherjee and Puneet Kumar Arora
Today, Chinese banks are happy to lend money to finance transactions on attractive terms at a time when they are not getting much demand from households and other companies.
Henny Sender

With or without foreign investors, China deals will still get done

Local private equity groups tap cheap funding to seize on opportunities from exits

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A man looks at his smartphone along Marina Bay amid the COVID-19 outbreak: Singapore's "fake news" law allows the government to order online falsehoods to be taken down.
Ben Chester Cheong

Singapore has recognized the real danger of disinformation

Hamas attack and anti-vaccination campaigns show need for safeguards

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Taliban soldiers stand guard in Mes Aynak valley in 2021: A Chinese company won rights to develop a copper mine during the republican era but has not gotten the project running yet.
Raffaello Pantucci

Afghanistan shows the gap between BRI rhetoric and reality

Chinese initiative has not brought stability but rather requires it

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Fumio Kishida became the first Japanese prime minister to address the Philippine Congress on Nov. 4. 
Nikkei Editorial

Japan and ASEAN should push forward with security cooperation

Both sides must deepen ties in the face of China's maritime aggression

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The KOSPI has had a rockier 2023 than peer market indexes like Japan’s Nikkei Stock Average.

Freezing out short sellers will not fire up South Korean growth

Move shows MSCI right in not considering the country a 'developed market'

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A Beijing factory of Japan's SMC Corp.: Experience has shown that anyone rushing to predict the decline of the Chinese economy risks putting their reputation on the line.
Yu Yongding

China's economy is not done growing

Government can counter doomsayers by expanding fiscal stimulus

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Yu Yongding
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A QR code for digital payment platform Paytm at a shop in Mumbai: Financial services need to deploy AI technology to counter AI-driven cyber crimes like payment fraud. (Photo by Ken Kobayashi)
Safdar Khan

AI is magnifying risks for Southeast Asia's new digital citizens

Improving technology also helping to root out fraud at earlier stage

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Memorials for late Premier Li Keqiang in Zhengzhou, China on Oct. 29: Many remember Li fondly but not because of his achievements. (FeatureChina via AP)
Steve Tsang

Grief for Li Keqiang reflects wistfulness for China's road not taken

Public is mourning for the freer, more dynamic era of 'reform and opening'

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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, center, on the Philippine Coast Guard ship BRP Teresa Magbanua on Nov. 4: He agreed to provide coastal radar to Manila. (Pool via Reuters)
Rena Sasaki

Japan's new security aid program needs more firepower

Defense support too small and too restricted to catalyze bigger export deals

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A man scavenges through waste thrown into the Ganges Canal in Muradnaga, India. (Sipa via AP Images)
Karan Mehrishi

Until the trash is picked up, there will be no 'Clean India'

Cities must be empowered to make citizens pay for their waste

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Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering, left, with Indian counterpart Narendra Modi in New Delhi in 2018: India is the de facto security guarantor of Bhutan, a diplomatic minnow.

Bhutan is not giving in to China's hardball diplomacy

Beijing uses talks to deflect attention from territorial encroachments

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Panda twins Lei Lei, left, and Xiao Xiao, center, play alongside their mother Shin Shin at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo. 

Letter from Nikkei Asia's editor: China's panda business

Shin Nakayama shares his weekly reflections and recommendations

Leaders of the Quad in Tokyo in May: The grouping's image as a U.S.-led tool to contain China could potentially pose an obstacle to cooperation with ASEAN.
Bharat Sharma

The Quad needs to work with other groups. ASEAN is the place to start

Maritime security would be productive area for cooperation

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A Senegalese farmer carries freshly harvest eggplants: India and Africa can strengthen agribusiness ties by channeling funds into agrotechnology.
Premeshin Naidoo

India is driving change by working together with Africa

Modi has taken lead in championing trade and investment links with the continent

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Premeshin Naidoo
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A boy wades through rising seawater in Serua Village, Fiji in 2022: Global warming poses an existential threat to many Pacific island countries.
Denghua Zhang

Pacific climate change fight is a test for both U.S. and China

Amid battle for influence, island states seek help with global warming threat

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Denghua Zhang
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A pro-Palestine rally at the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok on Oct. 21: Thais need to understand that sympathy for Palestinians does not imply disloyalty to Thailand.
Daungyewa Utarasint

Israel-Hamas war has awakened anti-Muslim hate in Thailand

Despite toll of violence on country's migrant workers, most do not want to go home

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Daungyewa Utarasint
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A poster of founding father Mustafa Kemal Ataturk is displayed on a building in Istanbul as part of events marking the 100th anniversary of modern Turkey.
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Turkey at 100: Its global role is more important than ever

Ankara should leverage its strengths to promote regional stability

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