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Under the watchful eye of the Indian government, yoga master Sri Sri Ravi Shankar wants to resolve the world's conflicts through a breathing technique. At a gathering last month, he attracted 3.5 million followers in New Delhi.

Once in a while, if you’re lucky, and paying the right kind of attention, events align to give you a clear view of the future. In 1995, I was in Los Angeles staying with a friend who produced independent films and had the trade magazines Variety and The Hollywood Reporter delivered to his door early each morning. One day, the front page headlines trumpeted New Line Cinema’s

With 74 percent of Africa’s youth identifying democracy as the preferable type of government, it may not be too late for American policymakers to take an interest in U.S.-Africa relations.

Military service is compulsory in South Korea and many deem it unfair that the band’s members have been allowed to put it off.

Eight lessons from Ukraine war

Last week, ChinaFile published a discussion on the debate over Confucius Institutes–Chinese language and culture programs affiliated with China’s Ministry of Education—and their role on university campuses. The topic, and several of the responses we posted, resulted in a large number of additional responses, comments, and critiques both off and online. In particular, many

The union minister of information and broadcasting Anurag Thakur on Wednesday said that the globalisation of Indian cinema aided by a large diaspora has played a role in promoting India’s public diplomacy.

America needs to enlist its oldest allies and new partners to build a safer and freer world for the AI era.

Confucius Institutes continue to incite controversy in America. Since 2006, China’s government has given more than $158 million to dozens of U.S. universities to host the institutes, which offer Chinese language classes and hold events. To critics, the institutes threaten academic freedom on U.S. campuses, but many supporters view them as an innocuous means of funding Chinese

Xi Jinping, the newly appointed Chinese President, unfolded his presidency with a grand foreign tour to Russia, Tanzania, South Africa, and the Republic of the Congo. While this series of state visits unequivocally underscored China’s diplomatic emphasis on its neighboring power and traditional friends in Africa, what really caught the media’s attention was the charm offensive