Xi Jinping's Southeast Asian tour exploited US tariff threats to promote nationalist messaging, positioning China as a ...

Shenghua Zhang completed his PhD in Politics and International Studies at SOAS, University of London in 2024. He specialises in contentious politics in Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on ...

Trump’s trade talks face a tough finish as the ‘Liberation Day’ tariff deadline nears, emphasising his focus on auto tariffs, ...

While South Korea might have to offer a deal agreeable to Trump, Seoul has experience in finding compromise and defending ...

Instead of adopting short-term populist responses to the cost of living, Japan needs a mature and sensible approach to fiscal ...

Upper House election approaches, the LDP leans on crisis rhetoric while the opposition fails to offer a credible plan to fund ...

Taiwan’s vulnerable position is only worsened by the growing misalignment between US Indo-Pacific strategic posturing and ...

Howard Shen is Research Director at the Asia Pacific Peace Research Institute. He was a foreign policy fellow at Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan’s Foreign Affairs and National Defence Committee. He received ...

Trump’s looming tariffs on Vietnamese goods threatens to upend the country's US export-heavy economy. To counter this, ...

Southeast Asian nations are offering billions in trade concessions to avoid US tariffs, but these reactive deals provide ...

India must protect its strategic interests and translate its free and open Indo-Pacific vision into an actionable presence by ...

Indonesia’s digital future depends on strong regulation to prevent the rumoured Grab–GoTo merger from creating unchecked market dominance that harms competition and innovation.