The Asia Pacific’s Trump-led turn towards economic security may be an undeniable reality, but fragmentation carries serious ...

Myanmar’s rare earths are a source of local leverage and conflict, not a game-changer in global great power competition.

Thant Thura Zan is Doctoral Candidate in Global Ecological Economics at Kyoto University and Research Fellow at the Global Justice Program, Yale University. He has been awarded the Amartya Sen Prize, ...

The July 2025 deepfake incident at the University of Hong Kong revealed gaps in East Asia’s legal frameworks, where privacy ...

Japan’s ruling LDP has opened its presidential contest to succeed Shigeru Ishiba, with five candidates in the running.

Wang Guangtao is Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Center for Japanese Studies at Fudan University, Shanghai, China. He received his PhD from Nagoya University in Japan. His research ...

Southeast Asian firms are measuredly optimistic in transitioning towards more digitally automated, productive and resilient business operations.

China’s recent engagement with the Taliban jolted a dormant debate on whether China will move to recognise the Taliban. The ...

Without decisive leadership and inclusive reform, Myanmar’s Spring Revolution risks dissolving into symbolism rather than ...

Pacific island countries can circumvent federal climate inaction by partnering with progressive US states through the Under2 ...

Henryk Szadziewski is Affiliate at the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. His research interests include grounded and discourse analyses of Oceania’s globalism, ...

Over five days in July 2025, the Thai–Cambodian border erupted into its deadliest confrontation in more than a decade. At ...