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