Indonesia under President Prabowo Subianto appears to have entered a post-Islamist arrangement, with no major Islamist party standing in open opposition. But this convergence rests on state coercion ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's visit to Australia in late April 2026 coincides with the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Basic Treaty of Friendship and Co-operation. Both countries face an ...

ASEAN has long framed trade diversification as a strategic priority, but in practice its economic ties have become more regionally concentrated, with engagement with the Gulf Cooperation Council ...

At the pump, consumers across the world are reliving the kind of price shocks that defined the oil crises of the 1970s. Petrol prices that hovered around 180 cents per litre in early 2026 have surged ...

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Data Avicenna holds a Masters in Economic Policy from the Research School of Economics, The Australian National University. Prior to his Masters, he obtained his Bachelor of Economics from Universitas ...

Anthony Saich is Daewoo Professor of International Relations and Director of the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Takeo Otani is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Territory and History, The Japan Institute of International Affairs. He is also a doctoral researcher at Hitotsubashi University, specialising in ...

US protectionism is reshaping Asia’s trade politics. Rising tariffs and unpredictability from Washington are chilling investment, disrupting supply chains and driving governments towards transactional ...

Ye Zhang is Research Analyst at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

Junqing Zhang is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University. His research interests focus on illicit economic flows, particularly online gambling in China ...

China’s 15th Five-Year Plan reinforces a gradual, controlled approach to capital account opening and renminbi internationalisation. Rather than pursuing broad liberalisation, Beijing is refining a ...