ASEAN faces a critical test of whether it can strengthen regional resilience and avoid being sidelined by larger powers. Deepening regional integration, fully implementing RCEP, coordinating domestic ...

ASEAN’s struggle to manage security crisis calls for a new regional maritime cooperation forum to strengthen Southeast Asia’s collective defence at sea.

Economic security is growing increasingly central to trade policy in the Asia Pacific, shifting cooperation away from traditional forums and areas of focus towards loosely organised networks linking ...

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

Japan’s ruling LDP has opened its presidential contest to succeed Shigeru Ishiba, with five candidates in the running. Beijing is watching closely, wary that Ishiba’s fragile thaw in China–Japan ties ...

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

The July 2025 deepfake incident at the University of Hong Kong revealed gaps in East Asia’s legal frameworks, where privacy and harassment laws fail to address AI-generated synthetic media crimes.

Indonesia has the credibility and opportunity to be a global player as the political and economic centre of ASEAN, but that will require delivering on its domestic reform agenda ...

Indonesia’s bold decentralisation experiment risks backsliding as more work needs to be done to promote local governments' fiscal autonomy.

Coordinated intellectual property frameworks can power sustainable cooling across South and Southeast Asia, improving innovation, investment and accessibility.

Indonesia’s path from discontent to growth depends on aligning domestic reform with global economic integration to build competitive industries that can create secure jobs.

The agriculture–tourism nexus offers an opportunity for Laos to broaden the benefits of connectivity gains from the ...