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

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 ...

Japan’s fiscal policy is increasingly out of step with an economy constrained by labour shortages, demographic decline and persistent inflation. Short-term measures such as subsidies, tax cuts and ...

Indonesia will issue two presidential regulations in 2026 covering AI ethics and a national AI roadmap, aiming to embed ethics, transparency and accountability within its AI development. Yet the ...

The Pacific Islands Forum annual leaders’ summit began in Palau on 30 August 2026 against the same backdrop of growing geopolitical pressures that catalysed the adoption of the Blue Pacific Ocean of ...

Japan is reframing its US$550 billion investment commitment to the United States as a strategic tool to strengthen its own demand-side economic security. Rather than focusing on supply-chain ...

The Philippines’ proposed New Clark City industrial hub could help diversify supply chains and attract new US investment. But Manila wants US capital and technology without abandoning mineral networks ...

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 ...

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 ...

For much of the post-Cold War era, the Philippine military has struggled to reconcile its strategic responsibilities with limited capabilities, relying on ageing platforms and a force structure geared ...

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 ...

China’s remarkable rise in electric vehicles is often attributed to coordinated state-led industrial policy, but its success depended crucially on competition and experimentation among central ...