Prospects 2014

Asia Pacific

Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang arrive at the third plenary meeting of the 12th National People's Congress in Beijing (Reuters/China Daily)
  • Nov 5, 2013
  • 7 min read

China's economy

Policy decided at the Third Plenum of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party will...

India's Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi is congratulated by Rajnath Singh, president of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, after Modi was crowned as the prime ministerial candidate for the BJP (Reuters/Anindito Mukherjee)
  • Nov 13, 2013
  • 7 min read

India

National attention in India is focused on a series of state-level elections taking place in...

  • Nov 14, 2013
  • 6 min read

China politics

Xi Jinping has focused during his first year as head of the Communist Party on maximising...

  • Nov 15, 2013
  • 7 min read

Japan

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has survived through 2013 with his political popularity still running...

  • Nov 18, 2013
  • 7 min read

The Koreas

With a parliamentary majority and no national elections until 2016, South Korean President Park...

  • Nov 19, 2013
  • 7 min read

South-east Asia

Growth across South-east Asia has been hit hard by weakening investment and softening demand for...

  • Nov 20, 2013
  • 7 min read

Pakistan

The military's unwillingness to seize power in Islamabad, the emergence of a government with a...