ASEAN and China's efforts to finalise a Code of Conduct for the South China Sea move at a languid pace as crucial challenges ...

Wukong showcases the country’s rising cultural influence while reflecting the industry’s close ties to Chinese authorities, ...

In October 2024, Indonesia’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology asked Apple and Google to block access to Temu, a Chinese e-commerce application. This move aims to protect local ...

Beijing's anxiety over the ‘internationalisation’ of the Taiwan issue underpins Taiwan Strait tensions, as demonstrated by large-scale military exercises by the People's Liberation Army in late 2024.

South Korea’s criminalisation of deepfake pornography consumption is a promising step against digital sex crimes, imposing stricter penalties for production, distribution and viewing. But the ...

Following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war in October 2023, Japan's energy security is threatened by rising geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, where it sources over 95 per cent of its oil.

The United States' continued withdrawal from the global economy under the incoming Trump administration may result in large-scale retaliation from economic powers such as China and the EU, causing ...

When Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, the conventional wisdom was that we should take him seriously but not literally. This time, we ought to take him literally, too. Since his victory, he has ...

Gaffar Muaqaffi is a Policy Analyst at the Ministry of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform, Indonesia. His research interests include the political economy of development, social movements, and ...

Dia Khairina is Erasmus Mundus Scholar in Public Sector Innovation and eGovernance at KU Leuven.

Thang Nam Do is a Fellow in the Zero-Carbon Energy for the Asia-Pacific Grand Challenge Program at the Crawford School of Public Policy and the Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions, ...