1+ hour, 32+ min ago  (886+ words) Since its outbreak in mid-2025, the Cambodia'Thailand border conflict has disrupted cross-border trade and worsened livelihoods on both sides. The United Nations reports several waves of displacement across northeastern Thailand and northern Cambodia. Even after the fragile December 2025 ceasefire, the conflict's…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago  (252+ words) Prabowo Subianto's presidency is shaping up as a test of Sadli's law, an old adage of Indonesian political economy derived from economist Mohammad Sadli's sardonic observation that "bad times may produce good economic policies and good times frequently the reverse…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (964+ words) Listen to this article Canada and India's March 2026 agreements on artificial intelligence (AI) cooperation and resource sharing represents one of the most concrete attempts by countries outside the US'China duopoly to build an alternative AI architecture. The agreements are a…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (204+ words) China and the United States " or at least its president " appear to have come full circle this May. Most importantly, the two leaders set a date in late September 2026 for Xi's return visit to Washington. There has not been a…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (314+ words) BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University Children under five years old account for 79 per cent of cases, with infants under nine months bearing a disproportionate share of fatalities. Genetic analysis conducted in February 2026 identified continuing transmission…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (730+ words) This approach was informed by optimism about the geopolitical circumstances of the early 21st century and rested on core assumptions about Chinese and US behaviour that have proven badly misplaced. Like others, policy leaders in Australia assumed that China's post-Mao political…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (511+ words) China's decision to set a reduced GDP growth target of 4. 55. 0 per cent for 2026 marks another step in a long-running structural transition. Chinese policymakers have presented it not as a sign of economic weakness but as a deliberate pivot away from…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (304+ words) Middle powers can " and likely will " maintain and improve the rules-based trading system. The question is how they should seek to do so. The right path is to uphold the principles of non-discrimination and openness that have guided the postwar…...

4+ week, 13+ hour ago  (342+ words) Amid intensifying US'China rivalry and facing an increasingly assertive United States under President Donald Trump, Indonesia finds itself at the centre of contestation, with public trust in the country's foreign policy weakening. Controversy around the signing of the US'Indonesia Major…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (872+ words) East Asia Forum Peer reviewed analysis from world leading experts South Korea needs partnerships to secure its economic lifelines The 2026 Iran war has exposed South Korea's reliance on a US-backed maritime security order to protect its Middle Eastern energy routes....