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Amid a pandemic and shifting geopolitical winds, Vietnam’s next leaders will be of crucial importance for the country’s future.

Beneath the surface, the Trump and Modi administrations had more tensions than common ground on digital issues.

The Diplomat looks at the trends to watch across the region in the coming year.

“U.S. standing in Asia has been at record lows under Trump,” says Jackson. What will Biden do differently?

While the war has taken the majority of government attention (and money), climate change may be the more difficult battle.

Southeast Asia is one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots. The region is also among the leaders in habitat and wildlife loss.

Despite the reality of the threat posed by climate change, Australia is a significant part of the failure to adequately address it. That has growing diplomatic costs.

As climate action becomes a question of geopolitical competition, the world’s major economies look ready to finally take serious steps to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

On paper, East Asian countries are moving aggressively toward renewable energy. On the ground, however, things are more complicated.

The government of Sadyr Japarov will have an opportunity to prove itself by confronting the problems that made the October 4 elections such a disaster.

Vietnam made the best of a difficult situation in carrying out its ASEAN chairmanship amid a pandemic.