No Pakistani PM has ever completed his term (!)
Imran Khan could not break the curse: lost a confidence vote and a new coalition replaced him.
He claims that this was instigated by the US. Members of his governing coalition abandoned him around the time when US state dept. official Donald Lu communicated to the Pakistani ambassador in the US that "relations with Pakistan cannot improve" as long as Khan remains in power but that US would "forgive its mistakes" if he were replaced. Then allies of Khan in the Pakistani parliament canceled the no-confidence motion organised by the opposition, citing foreign interference (USA's). Khan then decided to call general elections and dissolved the parliament. However, the opposition got a court to revert the cancellation of the no-confidence vote and the subsequent dissolution of parliament. Khan then lost that vote.
The new PM is said to be closer to the Pakistani military and is expected to be more pro-US, less pro-Russia (a US representative is already going to Islamabad to pass on the new orders)
In the last few weeks there have been several massive rallies in support of Khan

Sri Lanka has been in crisis for some weeks. Its economy was already struggling and then the pandemic-related travel restrictions hit its tourism sector. Then nu-cold war, money-printing, huge inflation. Couple of weeks ago it announced it was defaulting on "all external debts". And then it was taking yet more debt from the IMF.
The president dismissed all ministers. There have been curfews and bans of the Silicon Valley subversion networks to try to contain protests and riots. Kazakhstan vibes.

Economic war, energy/food prices rising, potential food shortages... Pakistan, Sri Lanka... signs of a "South-Asia Spring"?

There is news of a "security agreement" signed between Solomon Islands and China. Australia mad. USA mad. US has like >700 military bases around the world, has just expanded its militarism in the region through the Sukau, yet it's whining about an agreement that is not a military alliance and that apparently doesn't include bases either, just logistic transfers. People seem to have conveniently forgotten the riots that took place there last year, which in part targeted ethnic chinese, setting fire to a "chinatown" and such. And doesn't AU/NZ also have some kind of "security agreement" with Solomon? I think i remember them sending in security personnel sometime after the riots. So China can now do that too, at the request of Solomon, big whoop.
Australia previously sent some suits to Solomon, apparently to try and disuade them. Some media are apparently calling for regime-change/invasion lmao. Now a US suit is going there to get them to tear down the agreement. Btw, US has had its Solomon embassy closed for nearly 30 years. Fucking clowns
To be clear, given the circumstances, China probably should try to get bases, in Solomon or elsewhere in the SEA/Pacific