China’s 2026 Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress codifies the nation’s ongoing shift away from institutionalising ethnic difference and towards assimilation. Principally, the Law aims to ...

China’s industrial policy has become one of the most consequential and contested topics in global economic governance. As policymakers around the world reach for industrial policy to navigate ...

President Sadyr Japarov’s sudden dismissal of his long-time political partner, Kamchybek Tashiev, has upended Kyrgyzstan’s balance of power. The duo had led the country since the 2020 Kyrgyz ...

Japan’s deep-sea rare earth breakthrough in February 2026 marks a technical milestone and advances Japan’s broader science and technology agenda, but its contribution to supply chain security remains ...

The 2026 Middle East conflict has exposed Asia’s acute vulnerability to disrupted oil and LNG flows through the Strait of Hormuz, driving price spikes and pushing countries to seek greater energy ...

Malaysia’s affirmative action framework remains organised around ethnic categories that no longer reflect the reality of inequality on the ground. Malaysia’s affirmative action policy, now in its ...

ASEAN’s involvement in the South China Sea dispute began informally and incrementally. As Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, China and Taiwan firmed up their territorial claims, the dispute ...

Indonesia’s state-owned oil and gas company Pertamina is embroiled in a major corruption scandal that cost the state over US$12.06 billion between 2013–18. Involving top executives, the scandal eroded ...

There are no ‘silver linings’ in a conflict like that in Myanmar, where the civil war is still having its devastating effects on the country’s society and economy three years on from the military coup ...

Since the February 2021 coup that returned the centre of Myanmar to military rule, much debate has revolved around whether the military junta might collapse. The question has been whether the exiled ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s April 2025 diplomatic tour through Southeast Asia, starting in Vietnam, represents Beijing’s strategic response to a rapidly shifting trade landscape. Xi’s decision to ...

The second Trump administration has transformed US foreign policy, with immediate implications for economic and security ties with Asia and long-term implications for regional and global order. The ...