FROM THE age of 13, Yang wanted to study in America. Visiting Boston, she envied students she saw lying on the grass reading; that was “how studying overseas should be”. After graduating from Cornell ...
More than most regions in the world, Southeast Asia has found itself in the middle of the intensifying U.S.-Chinese rivalry. Most major countries in other parts of Asia are already spoken for: ...
Policymakers and scholars in the West talk about Southeast Asia as a coherent region, but it has always been divided. The region’s 700 million people speak hundreds of languages and follow different ...