Indo-Pacific Bidenomics: A New Economic Order
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Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s September visit to China demonstrated a clear balancing of aspirations and pragmatic realities, both on the domestic and international fronts.
On a hot summer day, the women of Kök-Tash took a break to play football. It was a rare joy amid a difficult life on the border.
Manet’s path to security in power will be difficult, as he is forced to carefully navigate the system his father built and, to a large degree, still controls.
As China hosted its premier diplomatic event, war raged in Gaza. You’d never have known it from the read-outs.
Opening up to international business brought a flood of disputes between contract parties. The rise of disputes led to another phenomenon: arbitration courts.
The problem with all this focus on Chinese economic coercion, and the related anxieties about its ability to weaponize trade, is that China hasn’t been particularly good at it.
China is looking to manufacture a homegrown EUV machine to compete with those of Dutch tech giant ASML – or cut such machines out of the process entirely.
Ideology does not guide the 2024 presidential candidates’ policies on cross-strait and international relations. Yet party dynamics will inform how candidates would manage these relations if victorious.
The government is moving to strip the group of its religious status after its connection to the assassination of former prime minister Abe Shinzo.
Shin Won-sik will boost President Yoon’s position with his caustic political remarks and hard security stance.
South Korean politics is becoming messier as the proxy war between Lee and President Yoon continues.
Japan is ramping up efforts to counter China’s seafood ban amid the controversial wastewater release from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant.
The realignment currently taking place between China, North Korea, and Russia will have serious implications globally, but especially for South Korea.
The 2023 Global Hunger Index report says that India has a serious hunger problem.
Few foreign dignitaries have had the privilege to visit the region before him, signaling Pakistan’s close ties with Beijing.
Local political maneuvering and pressing domestic issues – not geopolitics – drove most Maldivians’ voting decisions.
The escalating war between Israel and Hamas may have wrecked IMEC before it even began.
“We came with such difficulty… We would not leave on our own. If we could survive in Afghanistan then why would we flee?”
The Rohingya have never been a priority for the world community, and their plight has receded even further from the arena of international concern.
The country’s democratic durability has been underpinned by pragmatic collaboration between elites. This has come at a cost.
For Dili, upgrading relations with China is about giving itself as many options as possible for economic development. It is not about choosing China over Australia.
Like his predecessors, Srettha Thavisin has advanced a populist economic platform – but he’ll need to do more to address his country’s political and social problems.
Washington has once again affirmed that it has a treaty obligation to defend the Philippines against any armed attack in the contested waterway.
Soviet-style collective punishment of kin lives on in Tajikistan under Emomali Rahmon.
The Kyrgyz public’s doubts and questions about the Kolbaev killing are the expression of what they cannot see for lack of a transparent legal system.
Connectivity projects are crucial for landlocked Central Asian countries. Yet the railway brings major concerns: a lack of transparency, smuggling risks, and a possible debt trap.
Amidst the energy and electricity crisis, Tashkent’s pursuit of renewables is as much about addressing the threat of climate change as it is about shoring up its energy security.
The parallel imports that pass through Kazakhstan to Russia represent a complex equation with variables ranging from the customs union to corruption.
As a developed country in a developing region, the economic uplift of the Pacific and Timor-Leste is of critical importance to Australia.
The Indigenous Voice to Parliament has been strangled by hands seeking short-term political gains.
At the very time the Marshall Islands COFA negotiations began to falter over the U.S. atomic legacy, “Oppenheimer” appeared in cinemas.
Rabuka said Fiji was “more comfortable” dealing with nations like Australia, taking a measured tone and notably shifting Fiji further away from entanglement with China.
Wars in Ukraine and Israel are drawing U.S. focus away from the Indo-Pacific yet again.
Under President Joe Biden, Washington has made considerable progress in its relations with the region, but clear weak points remain.
Historically, the U.S. approach to China has had a unique relationship to the ebb and flow of national cohesion at home.
Based on current plans, Japan will finish building its current Taigei-class subs in FY2027. Will a new class of submarine follow?
The eruption of war in Israel and Gaza is a dark reminder that buried conflicts – like India’s disputes with Pakistan and China – can erupt at any time.
Despite their alleged involvement in terrorist attacks including the 2002 Bali bombings, Mohammed Farik Bin Amin and Mohammed Nazir Bin Lep could be heading back to Malaysia early next year.
What is driving Iran’s interest in Antarctica, and how realistic are its ambitions?
Consecutive Polish governments have focused largely on the country’s cruel, difficult past. But there successes in Asia that tell the story of a forward-looking, hard-working people.
Manila’s LGBTQ community rallied in support of drag performer Luka Pura Vega, who was arrested after a video of their performance dressed as Jesus Christ circulated online.
The Israel-Hamas conflict has triggered a fresh outpouring of hate speech that aligns with Beijing’s policy aims.