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World Bank: Central Asia's trade projected to grow $350bn by 2040

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shots Awards Asia Pacific 2026 winners announced

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Jaishankar Holds Illuminating Discussion @Asia Society, NYC

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Central Asia accounts for around 15% of TCTC's projected GDP gains - WB

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GMS Expands Relocation Support to and from Asia-Pacific and Latin America

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Lombard Odier Adds Two Bankers to Asia Private Clients Team in Hong Kong and Zurich

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SM Investments Corp urges PH businesses to maximize RCEP reach in Asia - ABS-CBN

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WB: Central Asia to see around 2% average GDP boost from Middle Corridor

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Cove Capital looking beyond Kazakhstan’s tungsten resources to opportunities across Central Asia and Caucasus - Bloomberg News

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Asian Games 2026: India women’s 4x400m relay team wins gold medal; Gulveer Singh completes hat-trick

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Cosmoprof Asia 2026 Sets the Stage for Beauty’s Next Global Chapter

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NextGen Tech 30 to identify and support Asia's most promising startups

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Noah Medical’s Galaxy System Enters Commercial Use in Asia with First Procedure Completed in Hong Kong

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West Asia Oil Exports Show Improvement

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Zest Quest Asia opens 2027 entries

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First volume on ties between Asia Minor and Cyprus to be presented in Cyprus — Cyprus Mail

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New Zealand Wine Exports Rise Boosted by Asia

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South India’s links with South-East Asia give it a supply chain edge: Industry leaders

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REG - Asia Strategic Ltd - Result of EGM

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Asia may weather tight global diesel market better than Europe — Bloomberg analysis

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New opportunities between South Korea and Central Asia

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China’s Xi "effective" in impacting Trump's views on Asia: ex-U.S. senior diplomat

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About Asia

A region only by convention

Asia as a single label covers more people than the rest of the world combined and groups together societies with no shared language, religion, political system or history. Coverage is more usefully thought of in subregions: East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Central Asia, each with its own dynamics. There is no equivalent of the European Union spanning the whole, and regional organizations are consultative rather than binding, generally operating by consensus and non-interference, which limits what they can decide but also explains their durability.

Trade, supply chains and why they are political

A very large share of global manufacturing sits in this region, and production is distributed across it, with components crossing several borders before assembly. That structure makes trade policy, shipping routes and export controls immediate rather than abstract concerns. Semiconductor fabrication in particular is concentrated in a small number of locations, which turns an industrial question into a strategic one. Maritime routes carrying much of the world's trade and energy pass through narrow straits, so freedom of navigation disputes have consequences far outside the waters concerned.

Territorial disputes are the structural story

Several of the region's long-running tensions concern sovereignty over land and sea, including maritime boundaries and features whose ownership is claimed by multiple parties, contested land borders between neighbors, and divided states where the political settlement following mid-century conflicts was never finalized. These are genuinely disputed rather than simply misunderstood, with parties holding incompatible legal and historical positions, and they resurface on their own schedule. Coverage that treats any of them as settled, in either direction, is making a claim rather than reporting one.

Demography is diverging sharply

Population trends within the region point in opposite directions and drive very different national concerns. Several East Asian countries have among the world's lowest birth rates and rapidly aging populations, which makes pensions, care work, automation and immigration policy central domestic questions. Parts of South and Southeast Asia remain comparatively young, so employment, education and urbanization dominate instead. Internal migration toward cities operates at a scale with few historical parallels. These are slow moving forces that explain a great deal of policy without ever generating a headline of their own.