[Analytics] Biden needs to end the tariff war with China
US President Joe Biden wasted no time reversing many of the damaging policies introduced during…
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Analytical publications on politics, economics, culture and sports and other topics of the countries of the Asia Pacific region.
[Analytics] With Modi squeezing Twitter, India’s love for big tech may be ending
It’s not a good time to be Twitter in India. Over the past few days,…
[Analytics] Is a ‘Cold War’ really emerging between China and the US?
A new generation of US cold warriors just got some powerful validation. Stephen Collinson specially…
[Analytics] Is there room for China in Australia’s travel bubble?
While Australia has managed the COVID-19 pandemic exceptionally well, hard border closures led to substantial…
[Analytics] After Covid, could the next big killer be heatwaves?
Searing, unrelenting heat scorches large swathes of the Earth, killing millions who have no means…
[Analytics] The future of Hollywood–China relations after the pandemic
Though film industries are market-based and profit-driven, they cannot escape the constraints of the political…
[Analytics] West Papua and MSG tragedies
When I ring home to West Papua, my village people often ask me about the…
[Analytics] Can S. Korea’s archbishop help pave the way for a papal visit to North Korea?
The first Korean appointed to a senior position in the Holy See has wasted no…
[Analytics] Rethinking the Philippines’ submarine program
Since 2013, the Philippine Navy has sought to replace its obsolete assets with newer platforms…
[Analytics] Consolidating Indonesia’s deteriorating democracy
The Economist’s Democracy Index for 2020 has confirmed that Indonesia’s democracy is dwindling. The report…
[Analytics] Factory workers making goods for the west bear brunt of virus surge in south-east Asia
It was around mid-May when workers at the Cal-Comp factory in Phetchaburi, central Thailand, heard…
[Analytics] Why Bill Gates become the nation’s largest farmland owner
They own the soil where the potatoes in McDonald’s french fries grow, the carrots from…