China consistently respects ASEAN's central place in the regional architecture and supports ASEAN mediation efforts. Wang Yi ...

Strengthening “Asean Centrality” through diversification and hedging should incorporate economic security. Amid rising ...

The Philippines kick-started its ASEAN chairship for 2026 with Foreign Affairs Secretary Maria Theresa Lazaro meeting Myanmar ...

Within hours of returning to office, in January 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump took an axe to multilateralism by pulling the United States out of the Paris climate accord and the World Health ...

The Philippines should use its ASEAN chairmanship to promote regional cooperation in undersea cable security amid ...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) faces a spectrum of challenges constraining it from reaching its potential. To overcome some of the region’s barriers, a subset of ASEAN states and ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today marked the conclusion of the historic first ASEAN Law Forum, held from 19 to 21 August at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC). The ...

As the annual Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in July came to an end, questions about the futility of the organization remained. Initiated by China as the Shanghai Five in 1996, the ...

We are living in a time of momentous geopolitical convulsions in which, after about three decades of apparent U.S. hegemony, superpower rivalry has returned with a vengeance. The war in Ukraine and ...

Central Asian countries are moving fast to increase regional cooperation in 2022. Russia’s re-invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 marks a renewed emphasis on improved regional cooperation. Regional ...

The report argues that fintech can help Central Asia leapfrog weak financial systems, expand financial inclusion, and support small businesses, but only if digital infrastructure, regulation, and ...