The Asian Crossroads

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Across
  1. 1. Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence
  2. 8. A creditor country extending dues to a borrowing nation to increase its political leverage.
  3. 11. A sudden reduction in the general availability of loans due to tighter conditions imposed by banks
  4. 12. Financial capital of Asia
  5. 15. Political family in Sri Lanka whose policies are largely responsible for its 2022 financial crisis
  6. 17. Co-Founder of Alibaba
  7. 18. A pass that lends its name to a proposed economic corridor that traverses the Afghan–Pakistani border to facilitate trade between Central and South Asia
  8. 21. Theme of India's 2021-2022 Budget
  9. 22. Which US official visited Taiwan in August 2022
  10. 24. Chinese Transnational Infrastructure Development Initiative
  11. 25. Currency of Thailand
Down
  1. 2. The only completely-autarkic nation in the modern world
  2. 3. Country with the highest Islamic population in the world
  3. 4. Billionaire capital of the world
  4. 5. Population control policy in China from 1980-2015
  5. 6. "India's Warren Buffet", who also produced English Vinglish
  6. 7. Headquarters of Asian Development Bank
  7. 9. Bhutan's alternative to the GDP Index
  8. 10. Turkish ethnic group forcefully based in China's Xinjiang province
  9. 13. Country with the longest life expectancy
  10. 14. Sea-level waterway linking Asia to the Mediterranean
  11. 16. Diasporic Iranian ethnic group without its own independent state
  12. 19. Where does the Dalai Lama reside?
  13. 20. Microfinance organization in Bangladesh started by Muhammad Yunus
  14. 23. Israel's Intelligence Agency