2016-09-03 12:00
Author: Huifang Tian, Chinese Academy of Social Science
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) have existed as a coherent economic group since 2009. They represent approximate… Read More
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2016-09-03 00:00
Author: Prashanth Parameswaran, The Diplomat
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong paid an official visit to the United States at the invitation of outgoing US President Barack Obama from… Read More
2016-09-02 12:00
Authors: Keoni Indrabayu Marzuki, RSIS, and Adhi Priamarizki, Ritsumeikan University
Implementing Joko Widodo’s (Jokowi) vague ambition to become the maritime power connecting the Paci… Read More
2016-09-02 00:00
Author: Junhua Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Since 2013, the ‘One Belt, One Road’ (OBOR) initiative has become the centrepiece of China’s economic diplomacy. The ess… Read More
2016-09-01 12:00
Author: Masayuki Morikawa, RIETI
The current potential growth rate of the Japanese economy is estimated to be less than 0.5 per cent. Given Japan’s rapidly declining working-age popula… Read More
2016-09-01 00:00
Author: Katherine Morton, University of Sheffield
China’s status within the prevailing global order has sparked one of the most contested debates in international affairs. For some, it… Read More
2016-08-31 12:00
Author: Gareth Evans, ANU
Hugh White’s views on the dangers of the United States moving to a ‘No First Use’ nuclear posture are not just inherently unpersuasive, for reason… Read More
2016-08-31 00:00
Author: Patrick Jory, UQ
The result of the Thailand’s recent referendum appeared to show an easy win to the ‘yes’ camp. 61 per cent of voters approved the draft constitutio… Read More
2016-08-30 12:00
Authors: Cai Fang and Wang Meiyan, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Guo Zhenwei, National Research Institute for Health and Family Planning of China
China’s unprecedented g… Read More
2016-08-30 00:00
Author: Natasha Hamilton-Hart, University of Auckland
Malaysia’s 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal reached a crescendo in July 2016. The US Attorney General claimed that more… Read More
2016-08-29 12:00
Author: Rebecca Mendelsohn, ANU
Foreign investment is periodically controversial in Australia. The decision by Treasurer Scott Morrison to reject foreign bids for Australian electricity prov… Read More
2016-08-29 02:14
Author: Editors, East Asia Forum
Among all the summit-babble about inclusive and sustainable growth and a myriad other agendas that have attached themselves to the G20, it’s still far… Read More
2016-08-28 12:00
Author: Ye Yu, Shanghai Institute for International Studies
At the end of the twentieth century, China was an observer of global governance, on the sidelines of the G7 and not yet a member o… Read More
2016-08-27 12:00
Authors: Wang Wen, Renmin University of China
The G20 has become the key vehicle for implementing and promoting global economic governance. China is set to host this year’s G20 summit… Read More
2016-08-27 00:00
Author: Emirza Adi Syailendra, RSIS
Without networks within the military, and having no effective power over the political parties, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has been constrained in his… Read More
2016-08-26 12:00
Author: John Lee, Canberra
Analyses of state responses to the South China Sea arbitral award often frame the issue as a binary choice between a rules-based or power-based approach to in… Read More
2016-08-26 00:00
Author: Patrick Strefford, Kyoto Sangyo University
After over 20 years of sanctions and international pariah status, Myanmar has begun to come in from the cold. It has taken the 2010 electio… Read More
2016-08-25 12:00
Author: Adam Leong Kok Wey, National Defence University of Malaysia
The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) judgement on the South China Sea ruled that there is no legal basis for Chinese … Read More
2016-08-25 00:00
Author: Emirza Adi Syailendra, RSIS
Joko Widodo’s (Jokowi) victory in the 2014 presidential election was celebrated as it represented a major step forward for democracy in the world&rs&hell…Read More
2016-08-24 12:00
Authors: Can Wang and Xinzhu Zheng, Tsinghua University
Water and energy are indispensable inputs to modern economies. But in China these are both under threat. China’s per capita quan… Read More
2016-08-24 00:00
Author: Hugh White, ANU
Barack Obama began his presidency with a dramatic gesture which captured the world’s imagination and won him the Nobel Peace Prize. Speaking in Prague in 2009… Read More
2016-08-23 12:00
Author: Adam Triggs, ANU
In December 2015, China announced that its priorities for the upcoming G20 Hangzhou summit were to make the global economy more innovative, invigorated, interconnect… Read More
2016-08-23 00:00
Author: Arianto A. Patunru, ANU
Once again President Joko Widodo has reshuffled his cabinet. One pleasant surprise is the return of Sri Mulyani Indrawati, who until recently was Managing Dir… Read More
2016-08-22 13:34
Author: Wing Thye Woo, U C Davis, Sunway University, Fudan University, and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
2016 began with international media attention drawn to the weakness of China&rsq&hell…Read More
2016-08-22 02:00
Author: Editors, East Asia Forum
On the campaign trail earlier this year Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte shocked the world with his political strongman style, vowing to wipe out crime&nbs&hell…Read More
2016-08-21 12:00
Authors: Ronald D. Holmes, ANU, and Mark R. Thompson, City University of Hong Kong
Since his inauguration on 30 June, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has been true to his campaign pledg… Read More
2016-08-20 12:00
Author: Jayson Lamchek, ANU
Duterte is gaining in the war on drugs, but at a terrifying cost to Filipino society.
The Philippines is drowning in a wave of killings as the government of the n… Read More
2016-08-20 00:00
Author: Hipolitus Yolisandry Ringgi Wangge, Marthinus Academy
In July, Indonesian President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo courted controversy by appointing a former New Order general who… Read More
2016-08-19 12:00
Authors: Patricia L. Maclachlan, University of Texas, and Kay Shimizu, University of Pittsburgh
In 2015, the government of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe spearheaded a series of unpreced… Read More
2016-08-19 00:00
Authors: Ong Keng Yong and Phidel Gonzales Vineles, RSIS
ASEAN member states do not count for much in the global economy on their own. Indonesia, the biggest economy in Southeast Asia, has a… Read More
2016-08-18 12:00
Author: Sam Bateman, RSIS
Despite the old adage that ‘good fences make good neighbours’, sometimes it is impossible, for a variety of reasons, to build good ‘fences’… Read More
2016-08-18 00:00
Authors: Haimin Liu, China Steel Industry Development Research Institute and Ligang Song, ANU
China’s steelmaking capacity has expanded rapidly since the beginning of the 21st century… Read More
2016-08-17 12:00
Author: Ekaterina Koldunova, MGIMO University
Until its 2012 APEC chairmanship and APEC Summit in Vladivostok, Russia was not a proactive participant in East Asia. Rather, it was still striv… Read More
2016-08-17 00:00
Author: Elina Noor, ISIS Malaysia
Clouded by controversy even before it began, the recently concluded 49th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM) in Vientiane, Laos was conspicuous for… Read More
2016-08-16 12:00
Author: Razeen Sally, NUS
18 months ago, a new president and government came to power in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has had a national-unity government since August 2015. So what has changed?
The… Read More
2016-08-16 00:00
Authors: Xiaolu Wang, NERI, and Yixiao Zhou, Curtin University
The pattern of growth that drove the Chinese economic miracle has broadly run its course. China’s future prosperity now r… Read More
2016-08-15 12:00
Authors: Nasir Iqbal, BISP, and Saima Nawaz, CIIT
The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is widely considered to be a game changer not only for Pakistan, but for the Asian region… Read More
2016-08-15 02:00
Author: Editors, East Asia Forum
The Australian Treasurer’s decision to block Chinese and Hong Kong bidders leasing 50.4 per cent of a New South Wales electricity provider, Ausgrid, be… Read More
2016-08-14 12:00
Authors: Peter Drysdale, ANU and Zhang Xiaoqiang, CCIEE
Australia and China, though they are two vastly different nations, already have a huge and joint political, economic and soc… Read More
2016-08-13 12:00
Author: Mico A Galang, NDCP
On 12 July 2016, the Permanent Court of Arbitration rendered its decision on the Philippines v. China case over disputes in the South China Sea. Capturing worldwi… Read More
2016-08-13 00:00
Author: Emma Campbell, ANU
It is not easy being a young person in globalised South Korea. The intense competition that defines South Korea’s education system and the irregular employme… Read More
2016-08-12 12:00
Author: Yukun Sun, Wuhan University
As of 1 May 2016, China has fully replaced its business tax with a value-added tax (VAT) across all industries in a bid to streamline tax structures and r… Read More
2016-08-12 00:00
Author: Margareth Sembiring, RSIS
In recent decades, Vietnam’s demand for energy has increased along with its rapid economic development. This surge in demand could provide the impetus… Read More
2016-08-09 12:00
Author: Cuong T. Nguyen, University of Chicago
The United States’ complete lifting of the decade-long embargo on arms sales to Vietnam marked a historic milestone in US–Vietnam r… Read More
2016-08-09 00:00
Author: Sarah Teo, University of Sydney and RSIS
South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se once again defended the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile syst… Read More
2016-08-08 23:10
Author: Harry X. Wu, Hitotsubashi University
China’s substantive economic slowdown following the 2008–09 global financial crisis has added fuel to the long-running debate over th… Read More
2016-08-08 02:00
Author: Editors, East Asia Forum
Thailand went to the ballot box yesterday to vote on a new constitution. The results so far seem to favour the change. But whatever the final resul… Read More
2016-08-07 12:00
Author: Pavin Chachavalpongpun, CSEAS
More than two years since the coup, Thailand’s political situation remains volatile. The coup leaders have vowed to make Thailand more democratic… Read More
2016-08-06 12:00
Authors: Kai He and Huiyun Feng, Griffith University
The Permanent Court of Arbitration’s (PCA) ruling in the South China Sea case filed by the Philippines has been labelled a ‘s… Read More
2016-08-06 00:00
Author: Wu Riqiang, Renmin University of China
After hesitating for several years, South Korea decided to let the US-made Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) anti-missile system be d… Read More
2016-08-05 12:00
Author: Sandra Tarte, University of the South Pacific
In September 2014, Prime Minster Voreqe Bainimarama’s FijiFirst party swept to victory in an election that heralded Fiji’s r… Read More
2016-08-05 00:00
Author: Jane Orton, University of Melbourne
A spate of recently released policy documents from state governments in Australia speak clearly of China’s growing economic significance to… Read More
2016-08-04 12:00
Author: Darcie Draudt, Johns Hopkins University
The Republican and Democratic National Conventions have confirmed that each presidential candidate has very different foreign policy outlooks… Read More
2016-08-04 00:00
Authors: Ivan Roberts and Andrew Zurawski
Since the mid-2000s, Chinese corporate debt has risen sharply as a proportion of GDP — from around 100 per cent to 164 per cent in 2015. By co… Read More
2016-08-03 12:00
Author: Teck Chi Wong, ANU
The 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal in Malaysia, which has recently become the subject of a high-profile lawsuit by the United States Department of Jus… Read More
2016-08-03 00:00
Author: Hyaeweol Choi, ANU
On 17 May this year, a 23-year-old woman was stabbed to death by a 34-year-old man at a unisex toilet near the Gangnam subway station in Seoul. What shocked the pu… Read More
2016-08-02 12:00
Author: John Lee, Merics
When considering the implications of the South China Sea arbitral award, it is crucial to consider the political context in which China views the decision. The Tribu… Read More
2016-08-02 00:00
Author: He Ping, Fudan University
Over the last few years, negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) have provoked waves of criticism and suspicion in the Asia Pacific. Today, the… Read More
2016-08-01 12:00
Author: Vera Mackie, University of Wollongong
Women in Japan voted and stood for office for the first time on 10 April 1946. It was the country’s first postwar election and the first e… Read More
2016-08-01 02:00
Author: Editors, East Asia Forum
The role of ASEAN in underpinning Asian security is vastly underestimated. To the security hard-heads this may seem a peculiar claim, especially in Washingto… Read More
2016-07-31 12:00
Author: Sourabh Gupta, ICAS
Almost 30 years to the day that a young, Harvard-trained American lawyer won a famous judgment at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against the United Stat… Read More
2016-07-30 12:00
Author: Ding Dou, Peking University
China has had remarkable success in alleviating poverty. According to World Bank statistics, over the past several decades China has accounted for more th… Read More
2016-07-30 00:00
Authors: Tomoo Kikuchi, NUS and Huong Vo, VNU
Vietnam has transformed from one of the world’s poorest countries to a lower middle income economy in just 25 years. Beginning in 1986, Vi… Read More
2016-07-30 00:00
Author: Rahul Mishra, ICWA, New Delhi
Clearing the haze of speculation, the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) handed down its ruling on the maritime dispute between China and the Philippi… Read More
2016-07-29 12:00
Author: Ponciano Intal Jr., ERIA
The European Union and ASEAN have very different models of economic integration. Yet ASEAN and its members worry about what Britain’s exit from the Eur… Read More
2016-07-29 00:00
Author: Donna Weeks, Musashino University
On 31 July, just over 11 million voters in Tokyo will be asked to return to the ballot boxes to vote for a new governor. This will happen just three… Read More
2016-07-28 12:00
Author: James Chin, University of Tasmania
Last week the US Department of Justice (DoJ) announced that it was taking action to seek ‘the forfeiture and recovery of more than US$1 billi… Read More
2016-07-28 00:00
Author: Claude Barfield, AEI
No issue better illustrates the agony and self-inflicted wounds in the Republican Party than the Trump-inspired clashes over the future of US trade policy.
Whil… Read More
2016-07-27 12:00
Author: Stephan W. Schill, University of Amsterdam
European and North American capital exporting countries have shaped international investment law for most of its history. They pushed for t… Read More
2016-07-27 00:00
Author: David Dollar, Brookings
China is unusual in that it is a developing country that has emerged as a major investor. China itself is an important destination for foreign direct investme… Read More
2016-07-26 12:00
Author: Patrick Jory, UQ
After some months of uncertainty, a representative from Thailand’s Democrats Party last week declared in a televised seminar that the party would not support t… Read More
2016-07-26 00:00
Author: Geng Song, UHK
Descendants of the Sun, a South Korean TV drama featuring a romance between a soldier and a surgeon in a fictional war-torn nation, is reigniting K-drama fever across… Read More
2016-07-25 12:00
Author: Donald Rothwell, ANU
The ruling by the Annex VII Tribunal on the South China Sea maritime dispute between the Philippines and China lays down an unprecedented legal benchmark for dis… Read More
2016-07-25 12:00
Author: Donald Rothwell, ANU
The ruling by the Annex VII Tribunal on the South China Sea maritime dispute between the Philippines and China lays down an unprecedented legal benchmark for dis… Read More
2016-07-25 02:00
Author: Editors, East Asia Forum
After Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II in 1945, the US-led occupation authority drafted the country a new constitution designed to disarm a… Read More
2016-07-24 12:00
Author: Ben Ascione, ANU
Since the 10 July upper house election in Japan there has been widespread speculation that the government will move to formally revise the country’s constituti… Read More
2016-07-23 12:00
Author: Walter Hamilton, Sydney
Following the 10 July upper house elections the Abe government now has the two-thirds majority in both houses of the Diet necessary to pass constitutional ame… Read More
2016-07-23 00:00
Author: Sajjad Ashraf, NUS
China’s reaction to the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s relatively harsh ruling against it on the South China Sea has been angry. The court upheld nea… Read More
2016-07-22 12:00
Author: Ashima Goyal, IGIDR
June suffered from an excess of exits. But none of them lived up to forecasts of dire consequences, at least for India. For now, Indian markets have shrugged off… Read More
2016-07-22 00:00
Author: Cyn-Young Park, ADB
Asia’s successful economic performance has lifted millions out of poverty. Because the region’s high population countries such as China, India and Ind… Read More
2016-07-21 12:00
Author: Purnendra Jain, University of Adelaide
Foreign aid is a key instrument of international engagement in Japan’s foreign policy toolkit. Although Tokyo is no longer the world&rsqu&hell…Read More
2016-07-21 00:00
Author: Rajat Kathuria, ICRIER
India is set to become the world’s fastest-growing major economy this year. But, as the nation of 1.2 billion grapples with how to achieve rapid and sust… Read More
2016-07-20 12:00
Author: Adoracion M. Navarro, PIDS
The Philippines’ new President Rodrigo Duterte has indicated that China could play a key role in developing the Philippines’ infrastructure. Ev… Read More
2016-07-20 00:00
Author: Stephen Costello, Asia East
US and North Korean diplomats attended the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD) in Beijing on 22 June. Despite having talked at dinner, the US Stat… Read More
2016-07-19 12:00
Authors: Tsuneo Akaha and Anna Vassilieva, MIIS
According to conventional wisdom regarding Russia–Japan relations there is no prospect for the resolution of the territorial dispute bet… Read More
2016-07-19 00:00
Authors: Lauren Johnston, University of Melbourne, Xing Liu, Maori Yang and Xiang Zhang, Peking University
In East Asia, rapid income growth in the second half of last century has produced u… Read More
2016-07-18 12:00
Author: Sabine Frühstück, University of California at Santa Barbara
On 4 November 2014, Lieutenant-Colonel Chizu Kurita of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force became the first Japa… Read More
2016-07-18 00:00
Author: Editors, East Asia Forum
Last week’s much anticipated ruling in favour of the Philippines’ claims in the South China Sea against China in the Permanent Court of Arbitrati… Read More
2016-07-17 12:00
Author: Evelyn Goh, ANU
Southeast Asia has descended into a maritime insecurity spiral since the April–June 2012 stand-off at Scarborough Shoal between Chinese maritime security forces… Read More
2016-07-16 12:00
Author: Anthony V. Rinna, Sino-NK
On 25 June 2016 Russian President Vladimir Putin met his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing to discuss expanding the China–Russia strategic par… Read More
2016-07-16 00:00
Author: Anthony P. D’Costa, University of Melbourne
South Korea’s economic rise since the 1960s could be attributed to many factors: its geographic position, a homogenous and har… Read More
2016-07-15 12:00
Author: James Baron, Taipei
Taiwan’s new president Tsai Ing-wen faces a dilemma. If she continues her Kuomintang (KMT) predecessor Ma Ying-jeou’s rapprochement with Beijing, she… Read More
2016-07-15 12:00
Author: James Baron, Taipei
Taiwan’s new president Tsai Ing-wen faces a dilemma. If she continues her Kuomintang (KMT) predecessor Ma Ying-jeou’s rapprochement with Beijing, she… Read More
2016-07-15 00:00
Author: Sharyn Graham Davies, Auckland University of Technology
Compared with its Asian near neighbours, Indonesia has long been tolerant of same-sex sexuality and transgenderism. Unlike Sin… Read More
2016-07-14 12:00
Author: Andrew Chubb, UWA
Beneath its surface-level bluster, China’s authoritative response to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) arbitration this week contai… Read More
2016-07-14 00:00
Authors: Bronwen Dalton and Kyungja Jung, UTS
Important changes are taking place inside North Korea. The collapse of the command economy, and the emergence of capitalism in its place, is ong… Read More
2016-07-13 12:00
Author: Hitoshi Tanaka, JCIE
Donald Trump has defied all expectations about the US presidential election by emerging as the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party. For Japan, his extrem… Read More
2016-07-13 00:00
Author: Mark Beeson, UWA
Most of us have never known a world where the United States was not the preeminent power. Now things are starting to look rather different. Not only is much of the g… Read More
2016-07-12 12:00
Author: Purnendra Jain, University of Adelaide
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner, Komeito, have won 70 of the 121 seats up… Read More
2016-07-12 00:00
Author: Ron Huisken, ANU
The 26th meeting of the North East Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), a one and a half track forum whose membership mirrors the Six-Party Talks, was held in Beijing… Read More
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