The Trump–Xi summit in Beijing on 14–15 May 2026 was a tactical detente driven by mutual domestic pressures rather than any genuine easing of tensions, with both leaders seeking short-term wins on the ...

Japan’s restaurant sector has been forced to suspended new recruitment under the Specified Skilled Worker visa program after exhausting its allotted quota, exposing a widening gap between labour ...

Ongoing instability in the Middle East is exposing structural vulnerabilities in energy-dependent economies. South Korea, whose economic engine relies heavily on Persian Gulf hydrocarbons, has ...

The Beijing summit between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump offered a modest reprieve in a relationship strained by trade tensions and geopolitical crises, with renewed dialogue emerging as one of the most ...

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The new normal for any ASEAN Chair is the expectation of having to manage a crisis, if not multiple crises, amid an increasingly hostile geopolitical environment. The Myanmar conflict and South China ...

The 2021 military coup has devastated Myanmar's education system through widespread violence and school closures. As the junta loses territorial control, the National Unity Government and Ethnic ...

The second Trump administration has transformed US foreign policy, with immediate implications for economic and security ties with Asia and long-term implications for regional and global order. The ...

In Myanmar, state oppression and armed conflict have threatened human security and disrupted livelihoods in the aftermath of the February 2021 military coup. How these changes undermine the country’s ...

The recent House of Representatives election in Japan marked Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s first major test. While his ruling conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) suffered a modest loss of ...

The contemporary security context has sharpened Japan’s dilemma regarding nuclear weapons. Japan is surrounded by several nuclear-armed neighbours and depends on US extended deterrence rather than its ...