ASEAN’s responses to major regional security challenges like the Myanmar crisis illustrate weakening ASEAN centrality — ASEAN’s key principle and aspiration. The question of whether and how ASEAN can ...

Australia and India should pursue critical mineral partnerships with African governments to bolster supply chain resilience ...

The Marshall Islands’ new universal basic income program rests on Compact funding from the United States, blurring the line between sovereignty and dependency.

While the Asia Pacific region has woken up to a changed world order, Australia’s foreign policy discussions are stuck in the ...

As the 2026 APEC chair, China has the opportunity to lead by example on an enhanced services and digital cooperation agenda ...

Relations with Beijing will also improve considerably. North Korea will seek normalisation of trade relations and economic ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is seeking to emulate the economic policies of her mentor Shinzo Abe, but this agenda ...

The Japanese economy remained generally strong in 2025 despite the Trump tariff shock. Growth reached the level of its ...

As we begin the New Year, East Asia Forum would like to acknowledge and pay tribute to the legacy it owes to significant ...

In 2026, Japan’s fragmented Diet will have less room to govern as economic pressures, demographic decline and regional uncertainties sharpen policy trade-offs ...

Sri Lanka appeared on track to recover from the economic fallout of its 2022 external debt default until Cyclone Ditwah ...

Brigitte Tenni is Co-head of Equitable Systems for Health at the Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne. She is a public health practitioner with expertise in HIV programming, ...