East Asia has led the global economic recovery since 2020, but its current pace continues to lag behind pre-pandemic levels, ...

Dr Yumiko Shimabukuro is a faculty member and director at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Her work focuses on social welfare policy, poverty and inequality, East ...

Reviving the US–China G2 concept would undercut Asian multilateralism and force regional powers to recalibrate their ...

Japan’s bid for strategic indispensability in semiconductors will only work with increased international cooperation and ...

Despite Beijing’s absence from the official signing ceremony, its low-profile diplomacy was essential to resolving the 2025 ...

India and China’s Brahmaputra dam race is fuelling an energy–data rivalry, turning the Himalayas into a flashpoint of Asia’s ...

As geopolitics outweigh geoeconomics, escalating subsidies risk global economic harm, but sectors like fossil fuels and ...

As multilateral rulemaking grows more precarious, plurilateral agreements are emerging as an important strategic tool to ...

China’s military advances could give the Xiangshan Forum real strategic weight, but only if Beijing can match capabilities ...

China’s pause on Hong Kong stablecoins lays bare a simple truth — digital finance can evolve in China, but only on terms that ...

With a weakened WTO unable to play its historic role of adjudicating subsidy disputes, plurilateral initiatives are the best option to rebuild trust and provide intellectual leadership ...

Tonga’s next prime minister will determine whether power concentrates among nobility or whether Tonga retains a government ...