By Dominic Chiu — China is one of the largest and fastest-growing film industries in the world. At the same time, it maintains extensive quantitative and content restrictions on the screening of foreign films. In 2016 China raised the number…
Inter-State Council Standing Committee meets for the first time since 2005; Chandrababu Naidu is giving up multiple cabinet portfolios to take on the Happiness Department; Maharashtra can now set Uber and Ola rates, while Haryana taxes cabs at the border;…
By Shefali Dhar — Election results for the massive Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) are set to be released on Saturday. UP is the center of gravity for northern Indian politics; in addition to being India’s largest state by…
By Sarah Watson — In his 2016 Budget Speech Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced a landmark change in the way India governs itself. He announced that over the next five years the central government would make grants totaling more than…
By Sharmila Bellur — Punjab state assembly elections were held on February 4, 2017, with results set to be announced March 11. Punjab, with a population of over 27.7 million, is famed for providing electricity to almost all the households…
On March 11, Indian legislative assembly election results from five states — Goa, Manipur, Punjab, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh — will be announced to the public. Nearly 240 million Indians reside in this group of states alone. Policies the newly…
By George Abonyi — The recent CSIS study, Reinvigorating U.S. Economic Strategy in the Asia Pacific, presents clear recommendations for a focus on Asia and develops a compelling case, based largely on the region’s growing aggregate role in the global…
By Lance Jackson — Development projects in Johor, Malaysia, made headlines after former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad warned that they would attract a massive wave of Chinese immigration. However, development projects in Johor have long earned the ire of…
Telangana, Assam, and Tamil Nadu bring the complement of UDAY states to 21; the BJP continues to perform well in local elections; Maharashtra proposed to remove a major hurdle in the land acquisition process; Haryana creates a commission to simplify…
By Andrew Keir — Several large Indian states will go to the polls in the next two years. With the national elections only two and a half years away, political commentators are likely to exaggerate the importance of each state-level…