[Analytics] How ASEAN benefits as Japan shifts production away from China
The Japanese government is encouraging firms to relocate manufacturing from China to Southeast Asia. As…
Analytics
Analytical publications on politics, economics, culture and sports and other topics of the countries of the Asia Pacific region.
[Analytics] US–China scientific cooperation faces an uncertain future
Geopolitical tensions between the two largest scientific knowledge producers in the world are intensifying, and…
[Analytics] Critics are accusing the Philippines govt of using the lockdown to crack down on dissent
Questioning the world’s toughest coronavirus restrictions can be a risky business in the Philippines. Ben…
[Analytics] No end to Malaysia’s political games after Najib’s courtroom downfall
The rule of law isn’t so much about the absence of abuse of power —…
[Analytics] The next US-China battleground: Chinese dams on the Mekong River?
Chinese dams on the Mekong have been blamed by some for the severe droughts suffered…
[Analytics] WHO leader is stuck between feuding China and US
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was watching late-night television when he saw a hospital boss criticizing him…
[Analytics] China’s Space Silk Road reaches Mars and beyond
Most geopolitical analysis is pretty down to Earth. But don’t forget to look up: China’s…
[Analytics] China takes Bangladesh into its embrace now as Delhi-Dhaka ties go downhill
India is concerned that China, which has been “targeting all of India’s friendly neighbours” such…
[Analytics] The case for an East Asian ‘climate club’ led by Australia
The Nobel Prize-winning US economist William Nordhaus fired a salvo recently when he published an…
[Analytics] Myanmar’s Covid-19 response banks on Aung San Suu Kyi
With an official total of 351 cases and six deaths four months after the first…
[Analytics] What do Papuans really want?
On Tuesday, July 14th, the Antara News, Jakarta published an article by the Vice Deputy…
[Analytics] ‘Vaccine nationalism’: Is it every country for itself?
It’s dog eat dog in the world of COVID-19 vaccines. Kate Kelland, Julie Steenhuysen specially…