2023-06-03 12:00
Author: Jennifer Ahn, Council on Foreign Relations
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s state visit to Washington to meet with US President Joe Biden in April 2023 marked t… Read More
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2023-06-03 00:00
Author: Richard Q Turcsanyi, Central European Institute of Asian Studies
Since the days of its first president Vaclav Havel, the Czech Republic has been the leading supporter of Taiwan in Eu… Read More
2023-06-02 12:00
Author: Yusaku Yoshikawa, JIN Corporation
In May 2023, an expert panel submitted a mid-term report to the Minister of Justice in Japan proposing to abolish the country’s Technical Inte… Read More
2023-06-02 00:00
Author: Anthony Toh Han Yang, RSIS
Indonesia has taken constructive measures towards the Myanmar crisis. Despite these, prospects for ending the violence in Myanmar remain uncertain.
Myanm… Read More
2023-06-01 12:00
Author: Biswajit Dhar, JNU
In 2022, India and Australia signed the Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (ECTA), an early harvest agreement and a forerunner of the Comprehensive Economic… Read More
2023-06-01 00:00
Authors: John T. Deacon and Etel Solingen, UC Irvine
The contemporary security context has sharpened Japan’s dilemma regarding nuclear weapons. Japan is surrounded by several nuclear-a… Read More
2023-05-31 12:00
Author: Jayant Menon, ISEAS
China is Cambodia’s largest bilateral donor, lender, investor and trading partner. About a quarter of Cambodia’s total trade, a third of aid and two-f… Read More
2023-05-31 00:00
Author: Anita Medhekar, Central Queensland University
It is time for Australia and India to adopt an independent foreign policy and unlock their trade potential through the signing of a bila… Read More
2023-05-30 12:00
Authors: Kevin Zhang and Siti Suhaila Harith, ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute
Despite being a notch below 100 years old, Malaysia’s former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad remains act… Read More
2023-05-30 00:00
Authors: Wanning Sun, UTS and Haiqing Yu, RMIT University
To suggest that WeChat — the popular social media platform owned by Chinese company Tencent — has any positive potential… Read More
2023-05-29 12:00
Author: Maholopa Laveil, Lowy Institute
On 30 April, Prime Minister James Marape’s rule reached 47 months, the average tenure of a Papua New Guinean prime minister since independence i… Read More
2023-05-29 02:00
Author: Editorial Board, ANU
The Thai people have spoken, and there can be no doubt what they asked for: an end to the rule of the proxy parties of the military junta that seized power in th… Read More
2023-05-28 12:00
Author: Jacob Ricks, SMU
There’s a Thai proverb — ‘flee a tiger only to find a crocodile’ — that describes a situation in Thai politics in the aftermath o… Read More
2023-05-27 12:00
Author: Alexander Korolev, UNSW
After a year of diplomatic inactivity towards the war in Ukraine, the Chinese government has made demonstrable attempts to look like a peacemaker. But while t… Read More
2023-05-27 00:00
Author: Takuya Wakimoto, Deloitte Tohmatsu Space and Security
Japan is proud to be one of the most advanced spacefaring nations, with a more than 50 year record of space launches. The H-2A a… Read More
2023-05-26 12:00
Authors: Melissa Conley Tyler, AP4D, Allan Rahari, FFA, and Keith Symington, Sustainable Fisheries
Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing impacts ecosystems, economies, human secu… Read More
2023-05-26 00:00
Author: Tien Foo Sing, National University of Singapore
Singapore’s housing market is going through some big changes. It has a dual market structure consisting of a public and a privat… Read More
2023-05-25 12:00
Author: Robin Jeffrey, Institute of South Asian Studies
The big saffron-coloured bus, driven by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and carrying his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its asso… Read More
2023-05-25 00:00
Author: Minglu Chen, University of Sydney
The 20th Chinese Communist Party (CCP) National Congress, held in October 2022, caught the world’s attention — not least because there w… Read More
2023-05-24 12:00
Authors: Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo, Rini Astuti and Peter Kanowski, ANU
Indonesia remains one of the world’s largest emitters of greenhouse gases, ranking eighth in the world in 2019… Read More
2023-05-24 00:00
Author: Edward Vickers, Kyushu University
The comfort women controversy has dogged Tokyo–Seoul relations since the early 1990s, but Japan’s wartime network of ‘comfort stat… Read More
2023-05-23 12:00
Authors: Leonard C Sebastian and James Guild, RSIS
Indonesia’s hosting of the G20 Summit in 2022 was widely viewed as a success, as Indonesia assumed the role of international mediator… Read More
2023-05-23 00:00
Author: James Curran, University of Sydney
The speech in Washington in late April by US President Joe Biden’s National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan is critical to the United States&r&hell…Read More
2023-05-22 12:00
Author: Suryaputra Wijaksana, Bank Rakyat Indonesia
The COVID-19 pandemic posed a tremendous economic challenge, especially for emerging economies such as Indonesia. But it also marked a wat… Read More
2023-05-22 02:00
Author: Editorial Board, ANU
Your friends on the left will always be ready to tell you about the supposed contradictions between capitalism and democracy. By the same token, the latent influ… Read More
2023-05-21 12:00
Author: Yvette To, City University of Hong Kong
As China lifts COVID-19 restrictions and returns to normalcy, prospects for private business in the post-COVID economic recovery remain uncert… Read More
2023-05-20 12:00
Authors: Stephen Clibborn and Chris F Wright, University of Sydney
Australia has been widely regarded internationally as an exemplary ‘nation of immigrants’, with migration polic… Read More
2023-05-20 00:00
Author: Takeshi Sakade, Kyoto University
In December 2022, Japan, Italy and the United Kingdom signed an agreement to partner in the development of a sixth-generation stealth fighter aircraf… Read More
2023-05-19 12:00
Author: Tomohiko Kimura, Seikei University
As China expands its presence among Pacific Island countries by building dual-use infrastructure and providing loans, Japan is seeking to counter B… Read More
2023-05-19 00:00
Author: Toan Le, Swinburne University of Technology
Vietnam is undergoing a consultation process to amend its Land Law and the related Housing Law, amid declining consumer and investor confi… Read More
2023-05-18 12:00
Author: Yasuo Takao, Curtin University
In the early 1990s, Japan was under pressure to play a larger role in the international community. Japan’s government established the Technical I… Read More
2023-05-18 00:00
Authors: Durairaj Kumarasamy, MRIIRS, Prakash Singh, GIM, and Sukhvinder Kaur, MRIIRS.
Financial inclusion — which aims to provide access to financial services for all individuals and… Read More
2023-05-17 12:00
Author: Ryosuke Hanada, Macquarie University
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s administration dramatically increased Japan’s 2023 defence budget by 26.3 per cent in 2022 to… Read More
2023-05-17 00:00
Authors: Hening Wikan, SMERU Research Institute and Dias Prasongko, Universitas Gadjah Mada
Indonesia, the fourth most populous nation and third-largest democracy, is scheduled to hold its p… Read More
2023-05-16 12:00
Author: Narupat Rattanakit, American University
On 11 April 2023, a significant ministerial dialogue between the United States and the Philippines took place after a tumultuous period in the… Read More
2023-05-16 00:00
Author: Soyoung Kim, Nanyang Technological University
With the conclusion of reciprocal visits between South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio in early… Read More
2023-05-15 12:00
Author: Loro Horta, Dili
In early March 2023, General Laura Richardson, head of the United States Southern Command, told a US congressional hearing that Chinese actions in South America pose… Read More
2023-05-15 02:00
Author: Editorial Board, ANU
Three and a half years ago the world trading system confronted the threat of its rules becoming unenforceable as the World Trade Organization (WTO)’s Appel… Read More
2023-05-14 12:00
Author: Arata Kuno, Asia University
On 10 March 2023, Japan decided to join the Multi-Party Interim Appeal Arbitration Arrangement (MPIA), a plurilateral framework birthed by the European Un… Read More
2023-05-13 12:00
Author: Kaush Arha, Purdue University
Japan and India’s national interests call for elevating a free and open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) as the bedrock for global peace, prosperity and a rule… Read More
2023-05-13 00:00
Author: Faizal Bin Yahya, NUS
The digital banking ecosystem among Southeast Asia’s approximately 687 million inhabitants is diverse. Some ASEAN members, including the more developed AS… Read More
2023-05-12 12:00
Authors: David Camroux and Earl Wang, CERI Sciences Po
French President Emmanuel Macron triggered a series of geopolitical debates after returning from his state visit to China on 9 April 20… Read More
2023-05-12 00:00
Author: Paul Chambers, Naresuan University
On May 14, 2023, Thailand will hold a general election. According to most surveys, the most popular party is once again Pheu Thai — the third… Read More
2023-05-11 07:00
Author: Daniel Sneider, Stanford University
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s visit to Seoul on 7–8 May 2023 represents a triumph of geopolitics over the search for histori… Read More
2023-05-11 00:00
Author: Benny Teh Cheng Guan, Universiti Sains Malaysia
On 20 March 2023, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida chose to unveil his new plan for a ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’ (F… Read More
2023-05-10 12:00
Authors: Alexander M Hynd, UNSW and Daniel Connolly, HUFS
China’s November 2013 declaration of an Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ) over the East China Sea was rebuked by the Unit… Read More
2023-05-10 00:00
Author: Christian Oller Vicedo, Manila
As recent tensions in Philippines–China relations expand from the maritime security to diplomatic domains, the contours of Philippine foreign rel… Read More
2023-05-09 12:00
Author: William Case, Nottingham University Malaysia
The strains between Malaysia’s governing coalition parties, Pakatan Harapan and the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), are… Read More
2023-05-09 00:00
Author: Oleg Yanovsky, MGIMO
On 31 March 2023, Russia published its new Foreign Policy Concept. Rapid growth in Asia has fuelled Russia’s drift toward the East and the pivot has now be… Read More
2023-05-08 12:00
Author: Andrew Carr, ANU
Over the last 50 years, Australia has produced seven Defence White Papers and dozens of smaller reviews and updates. But however proudly governments announce new pol… Read More
2023-05-08 02:00
Author: Editorial Board, ANU
Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong was on the money in her recent address to the National Press Club when she observed that the key goal of foreign po… Read More
2023-05-07 12:00
Authors: Vu Le Thai Hoang and Ngo Di Lan, Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam
As the United States and China continue to engage in a global tug of war, Southeast Asian nations are increasingly pus… Read More
2023-05-07 01:12
Author: Editorial Board, ANU
With the death last week of Allan Gyngell, retired but until the end active foreign policy analyst, Australia has lost what Foreign Minister Penny Wong rightly c… Read More
2023-05-06 12:00
Author: Bernhard Seliger, Zwickau University of Applied Sciences
A new Cold War structure is emerging in Northeast Asia that is creating polarisation among countries in the region. North Kor… Read More
2023-05-06 01:08
Author: Emma Colven, University of Oklahoma
Flood events routinely displace more people across Indonesia than any other disaster, accounting for 82 per cent of all Indonesian disaster-relate… Read More
2023-05-05 12:00
Author: Minh Phuong Vu, ANU
In March 2023, China and ASEAN resumed negotiations on the South China Sea (SCS) Code of Conduct, which aims to reduce the risk of conflict in the disputed… Read More
2023-05-05 00:00
Authors: Dominic Simonelli, David Hundt and Baogang He, Deakin University
South Korea has been in the firing line of Chinese economic coercion. Like Australia, the East Asian nation is a key… Read More
2023-05-04 12:00
Author: Thang Nam Do, ANU
The EU plans to implement the world’s first carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) from October 2023. During the transition period, the scheme will require… Read More
2023-05-04 00:00
Author: Guy Burton, Brussels School of Governance
In March 2023, Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations, with China playing a role as the host of the talks. This g… Read More
2023-05-03 12:00
Author: Abdul Rahman Yaacob, ANU
It has been over 40 years since Vietnamese military forces rolled into Cambodia and toppled the brutal Pol Pot regime. One of the drivers that led Vietnam to… Read More
2023-05-03 00:00
Author: Maxensius Sambodo, National Research and Innovation Agency
Indonesia has great potential for renewable energy. In terms of installed capacity of geothermal plants, it is second only… Read More
2023-05-02 12:00
Authors: Japhet Quitzon, CSIS and Sophal Ear, ASU Thunderbird
Like in many authoritarian countries around the world, the Cambodian free press is struggling. Its situation is not unique &mdas&hell…Read More
2023-05-02 00:00
Author: Thong Anh Tran, University of Melbourne
The 21st century has seen a rapid increase in the number of countries in the Global South experiencing water scarcity. In the Mekong region, e… Read More
2023-05-01 12:00
Author: Elena Collinson, UTS
The Australian Academy of the Humanities’ 2023 report into the knowledge capability of Australia’s universities concerning China has brought into sha… Read More
2023-05-01 02:00
Author: Editorial Board, ANU
Thailand has paid a big price for the inability of its conservative elites to come to terms with the populist challenge to their dominance that emerged during th… Read More
2023-04-30 12:00
Author: Greg Raymond, ANU
The ghost of elections past hangs uneasily over the upcoming electoral contest in Thailand, waged on a battleground of big-spending promises. If the military-proxy… Read More
2023-04-29 12:00
Author: Subas P Dhakal, University of New England
Governments worldwide have used Social Protection Programmes (SPPs) to strategically assist marginalised and vulnerable citizens to cope wit… Read More
2023-04-29 00:00
Author: Xirui Li, NTU
The private sector and foreign investors have become increasingly sceptical about doing business in China since COVID-19. The risks of shutdowns, travel restrictions, d… Read More
2023-04-28 12:00
Author: Gilang Kembara, CSIS Indonesia
China’s easing of COVID-19 countermeasures in December 2022 spurred the resumption of several economic and social activities that were impossible… Read More
2023-04-28 00:00
Authors: Mohammad Sultan Ahmad Ansari, Modern College of Business and Science and Shad Ahmad Khan, University of Buraimi
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been a crucial driver of economic… Read More
2023-04-27 12:00
Author: Evelyn Goh, ANU
In her travels over the past 10 months, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong has referred repeatedly to Australia’s search for ‘a strategic equilibrium… Read More
2023-04-27 00:00
Author: Jose Sousa-Santos, ANU and Anna Powles, Massey University
The diplomatic spat surrounding China’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Ma Zhaoxu’s visit to Suva in April 2023… Read More
2023-04-26 12:00
Author: Chris Bullen, University of Auckland
In 2011 the New Zealand government adopted the goal of making New Zealand smoke-free by 2025. Almost half a million New Zealanders smoke daily, a… Read More
2023-04-26 00:00
Author: Dennis LC Weng, Sam Houston State University
The Taiwan Ministry of National Defense’s revised draft of the All-out Defense Mobilization Readiness Act has sparked widespread co… Read More
2023-04-25 12:00
Author: June Park, Schmidt Futures
Export controls on semiconductor technology have been expanded after the conclusion of US bilateral negotiations with Japan and the Netherlands in March 20… Read More
2023-04-25 00:00
Authors: Tom Le, Hanah Park and Hina Tanabe, Pomona College
On 6 March 2023, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol announced a plan to resolve the forced labourers dispute with Japan, a signi… Read More
2023-04-24 12:00
Author: Giridharan Ramasubramanian, ANU
During the February 2023 Asia–Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Senior Officials’ Meeting, delegates held discussions on this year&rsquo&hell…Read More
2023-04-24 02:00
Author: Editorial Board, ANU
‘The dollar is our currency, but your problem’. That was how former US Treasury Secretary John Connally described the US dollar back in 1971. That&rs&hell…Read More
2023-04-23 12:00
Author: Andrew Sheng, George Town Institute of Open and Advanced Studies, Wawasan Open University
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s recent call for the revival of an Asian Monet… Read More
2023-04-22 12:00
Author: Robert Basedow, London School of Economics
Multilateralism is now in crisis. The crisis manifests itself most forcefully in the WTO. The WTO, which counts 164 states as members, has… Read More
2023-04-22 00:00
Author: Ved Shinde, Asia Society Policy Institute
New Delhi’s strategic partnership with Tokyo has shown promise over the last two decades. The recent India–Japan Summit further… Read More
2023-04-21 12:00
Author: Sanval Nasim, Colby College
South Asia is facing an air pollution calamity. 37 of the 40 most polluted cities in the world are in South Asia, with major metropolises such as Delhi, L… Read More
2023-04-21 00:00
Author: Marina Yue Zhang, UTS
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) recently released a report asserting China’s dominance in ‘critical technologies’. The report… Read More
2023-04-20 12:00
Author: Anthony Toh Han Yang, RSIS
ASEAN’s digital economy is projected to leapfrog into the world’s top five by 2025. Despite its promising future, ASEAN’s digital economy… Read More
2023-04-20 00:00
Author: Yun Jiang, AIIA China Matters
The deficiency of Australia’s Asia literacy — and as a subset, China literacy — has been recognised for decades by successive federal… Read More
2023-04-19 12:00
Author: Andrew Eungi Kim, Korea University
South Korea’s fertility rate — the number of babies born to women in their lifetime — fell again to hit a record low of 0.78 in 2… Read More
2023-04-19 00:00
Author: Rahul Karan Reddy, Organisation for Research on China and Asia
Recent developments in the Middle East have cast China as a reliable intermediary and proponent of multilateral dialogu… Read More
2023-04-18 12:00
Authors: Andree Surianta and Hali Aprimadya, ANU
At the end of January 2023, the Indonesian parliamentary standing committee that oversees energy, research and industry policy called for the… Read More
2023-04-18 00:00
Author: Richard Katz, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
Researchers’ international experiences have a large impact on a country’s ability to innovate both tech… Read More
2023-04-17 12:00
Authors: Gantulga Munkherdene, National University of Mongolia and Ariell Ahearn, University of Oxford
Mongolia has substantial coal deposits across the country. Coal is an important source… Read More
2023-04-17 02:00
Author: Editorial Board, ANU
Japan hopes to contribute to global rule-making as Prime Minister Fumio Kishida hosts the leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies in Hiroshima on 1… Read More
2023-04-16 12:00
Author: Shiro Armstrong, ANU
From May 2020 Beijing blocked the import of roughly a dozen Australian goods for which China was the major market, cutting imports worth around AU$20 billion (US… Read More
2023-04-15 12:00
Authors: Pham Thi Thuy Duong, UC San Diego and Truong Thuy Quynh, UC Riverside
Vietnam’s digital government landscape ranked 86th out of 193 countries in 2022. In January 2023, the Min… Read More
2023-04-15 00:00
Author: Chia Siow Yue, Singapore Institute of International Affairs
Housing accessibility and affordability issues are not unique to Singapore. But the small island nation is especially land… Read More
2023-04-14 12:00
Author: Fukunari Kimura, Keio University
Media on global trade frequently puts forward the narrative that the US–China confrontation will divide the world in two. But East Asian develo… Read More
2023-04-14 00:00
Author: Vincent Kyle Parada, Philippine Navy
On 4 March 2023, Provincial Governor Roel Degamo was gunned down inside his residential compound at Pamplona in Negros Oriental. The attack has c… Read More
2023-04-13 12:00
Authors: Durairaj Kumarasamy and Manisha Nayyar, MRIIRS
The potential for cross-border trade between India and its neighbouring countries — Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Myanmar, Pakistan… Read More
2023-04-13 00:00
Author: Martin Miszerak, SolBridge International School of Business
In March 2023, China’s National People’s Congress announced the establishment of a Central Finance Commission… Read More
2023-04-12 12:00
Authors: Debashis Chakraborty, IIFT and Ripudaman Bhardwaj, RIS
The COVID-19 pandemic caused not only a health crisis but an even deeper economic crisis in India. This led to job losses and… Read More
2023-04-12 00:00
Author: Jenny Balboa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and Hosei University
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has shown that his foreign policy will be different from that of his p… Read More
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