Billions of dollars, little goodwill

Washington Post

Pakistani officials say they set out to capture Mr. Baradar, and used the C.I.A. to help them do it, because they wanted to shut down secret peace talks that Mr. Baradar had been conducting with the Afghan government that excluded Pakistan, the Taliban’s longtime backer.

Fire in the Hole

Foreign Policy

“Even if the wealth of the whole India is put in my pocket,” Tehreek-i-Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani promised at a press conference this August, “I will not barter away the sacrifices of our martyrs.

Adapting to Beijing's "correct understanding" of Tibet undermines not only the Dalai Lama and human rights for Tibetans, but also America's own "core interest" in seeing these respected in Tibet and China as well.

On the basis of the principle of equity, we called on the affluent developed countries to cut down their emissions in an adequate and timely manner, as well to bear the incremental costs of mitigation and adaptation actions implemented by the developing countries.

China has invested billions of dollars to increase clean energy in recent years. Governmental policies and incentives encouraging energy efficiency have enabled the country to become one of the world’s leaders in clean-energy industries.

Op-Ed

Nuke Deal: Costs/Benefits

The deal's energy benefits, in fact, are years away and will come with heavy economic costs.

A Himalayan Rivalry

Asia's two giants are still unsure what to make of each other. But as they grow, they are coming closer - for good and bad.

Right ideas often prove difficult to apply in practice. The India-Bangladesh $1 billion landmark agreement will entail a win-win situation for both the countries. Transit and connectivity shouldn't be held hostage to politics of competitive populism.

If you spend 72 hours in a place you’ve never been, talking to people whose language you don’t speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don’t understand, and you come back as the world’s biggest know-it-all, you’re a reporter.

The simmering political and constitutional crisis in Maldives threatened to surface again over this month after its Majlis (Parliament) failed to pass a legislation to ensure that the country's interim Supreme Court continues to function.