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U.S. President Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Elon Musk are closely intertwined with one another's interests.

The grouping has emphasized disaster response in its activities, yet its response to Myanmar’s catastrophic earthquake is sorely lacking.

Trade between the U.S. and Kazakhstan is limited and heavily skewed toward energy, which has been exempt from the new tariffs.

The Yoon era is over, but the South Korean polity is divided more than ever. 

Beijing has torn up Hong Kong’s freedoms and now threatens the security of Hong Kongers and their supporters around the world. It must not be allowed to get away with this with impunity. 

China’s young people face pressures unlike those of any generation before them. The government needs to reimagine how they fit into the economy.

China’s gradual incremental power projection in Australian waters is a calculated gray zone strategy.

China’s UAV activity is increasing rapidly in the airspace around the Nansei Islands in Japan's southwest, part of the First Island Chain.

For China, investing in Africa’s steel industry is a strategic move to relocate surplus production capacity and address slowing domestic demand.

With India shifting focus away from SAARC to BIMSTEC, it is keen to see the latter succeed.

Despite the Bangkok meeting, Oli has not gotten an invitation to visit New Delhi, something which he is desperately trying to secure.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet said that the refurbished base would be open to "all friendly parties," but U.S. suspicions are likely to persist.

As China recalibrates its aid and financing to the region, Western donors need to offer an alternative that is both credible and matches the region’s development priorities.

The country’s economic response to the tariffs will be guided by its multilateral and diversified foreign policy approach.

The revision of the TNI Law has eroded the principle of civilian supremacy. It could also undermine the cohesion of the military itself.

The Royal Thai Army has accused Paul Chambers, a lecturer at Naresuan University in Phitsanulok, of violating the lese-majeste law and Computer Crime Act.

Opposition parties and Muslim groups are challenging the legislation’s constitutional validity in the Supreme Court.

India must work at making India great as opposed to bending over backwards to help Trump in Making America Great Again.

ASEAN has become an attractive destination for petrochemical expansion and plastic waste exports, given its proximity to China and regional appetite for foreign investment. This will come at high risks to the region.

Uncertainty looms. But since the tariffs are also squeezing global competitors, South Asian countries could, with the right policies, recover.

The benefits of co-hosting the annual climate negotiations by far outweigh the costs, both economically and strategically.

Vietnam and Thailand say they are open to negotiations with Washington, but will also seek to diversify their export markets away from the U.S.

New Delhi faces a difficult choice between attempting to ease tariffs through diplomatic channels or imposing counter-tariffs on U.S. goods.