What Gen Z-led uprisings across Asia reveal about the strengths and limitations of youth protest

Recent Gen Z-led uprisings have reshaped political narratives across Asia, raising a pointed question: can street-level youth outrage be transformed into governing power and lasting institutional change? Or does it burn out once the protests end? Digitally networked young protesters in Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Iran, Myanmar, the Philippines and, more recently, India have jolted citizens into confronting political cultures where corruption and nepotism were long accepted as unavoidable…