Washington’s trade war was intended to revive US manufacturing and weaken China’s industrial base, but has instead sped up financialisation among US firms and damaged productive investment. Research ...

The US war on Iran exposed Southeast Asia’s heavy dependence on Middle Eastern oil, pushing leaders to issue an unprecedented Leaders' Statement, propose a new crisis response protocol and reaffirm ...

Codifying the Six Assurances can constrain unstable executive decision-making only if Congress turns historical commitments ...

Donald Trump’s second-term tariffs have imposed significant costs on the US economy, but the shift to protectionism is likely to outlast both legal challenges and Trump’s presidency as the domestic ...

Countries across the Asia Pacific have been hit with a bewildering array of tariffs since US President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025. Negotiations for tariff reductions have ...

China’s Arctic ambitions have encountered growing resistance from Arctic states wary of its strategic intentions, with proposed investments blocked, scientific activities scrutinised and its ...

Taiwan’s 2026 local elections will test whether cooperation between the KMT and TPP can evolve from parliamentary coordination into a more durable electoral alliance. The opposition parties are ...

Vietnam launched international financial centres in Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City in early 2026, offering preferential tax rates, special legal frameworks and liberalised foreign exchange rules to ...

Dollar-linked stablecoins could make cross-border payments across Asia faster and cheaper, especially where banking access is limited or remittances are costly. But their wider use would shift part of ...

China's rise as the world's leading electric vehicle producer is not the product of a unified interventionist state but of competitive interactions among rival central ministries, development-oriented ...

Though its political momentum has fluctuated, the Quad provides an important platform for cooperation between Japan, the United States, India and Australia. Yet its coherence increasingly depends on ...

The China–Japan–South Korea (CJK) trilateral summit framework is effectively stalled, with the tenth summit delayed indefinitely as Japan–China friction over Taiwan and defence policy compounds a long ...