Asia

By Emanuele Giordana "Immediate action is needed to prevent further damage and escalation of the disaster in Afghanistan, where poverty has reached unprecedented levels since the financial reserves were frozen in US and European banks last August". This is the...

By our envoy in Asia, Emanuele Giordana Vientiane, Laos - When the Russian Defence Ministry announced on 9 January that Moscow had received 30 vintage T-34/85 tanks from Laos, some may have thought it was a sign of Lao-Russian friendship...

Relations between the People's Republic of China and the United States today represent the most important node on a global level. It is a relationship that has always been fluctuating, alternating between periods of effective and fruitful cooperation and...

by Francesca Mollica It was 2018 when the Green Gold Cooperative managed to reach a great goal: exporting its first coffee crop. This story begins in 2015 thanks to the collaboration with UNODC (United Nations agency for drug control and crime...

By Lucia Frigo, director of Atlasofwars.com Nine months after the Taliban grabbed the power in Afghanistan, humanitarian organization Emergency paints a grim picture of the country: now more than ever the Afghani population need the support of the international community...

By Emanuele Giordana Amnesty International's latest report on Myanmar - 'Bullets raining from the sky: War Crimes and Displacement in Eastern Myanmar' - is an investigation conducted by Amnesty International in the two states of Kayin and Kayah. The two...

By Maurizio Sacchi Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Monday that the scenarios in Taiwan and Ukraine are not comparable, as the former is an entirely internal matter, while the latter is a conflict between two countries. This comment...

Two US warships passed through the Taiwan Strait. The US Navy announced this today: it is the first time this has happened since China's unprecedented military manoeuvres near the island. Below is a brief reconstruction of the recent tensions...

By Alfred W. McCoy* – from TomDispatch This article appeared on our partner Othernews. Follow them for more analyses and scholarly contributions!   Consider us at the edge of the sort of epochal change not seen for centuries, even millennia. By the...

This article appeared first on the Italian website of the Atlas of Wars on september 18, 2021. It was written by our Director, Italian journalist Raffaele Crocco. The news we received in September 2021 are signals of one, greater message:...