Written by Jennine Liu
Bilateral disagreements over trade and extradition policies are likely to worsen China’s relations with the US and Canada, which will likely increase the threat of hostage diplomacy and arbitrary detentions for American and Canadian travellers in Hong Kong.
Read MoreWritten by Jumakhan Rahyab and Meena Yakobi
The international community must not allow the Taliban leadership’s overtures in Doha — about their plans to observe the international conventions — to cloud their thinking. The Hazaras need international support, and they need it immediately.
Read MoreWritten by Nick Bisley
Whether others follow the example Australia has set, placing the military at the heart of regional policy, will be key to determining Asia’s emerging strategic landscape. Thus far even Japan, which has much greater clashes of interests with China, has not gone as far as Canberra.
Read MoreWritten by Frances Mangosing
The way things are going, we can expect Duterte to ramp up nationalist rhetoric over the next few months to gather voter support for his chosen successor. We have seen this game before.
Read MoreWritten by Gerald C. Brown
If China adopts a launch-on-warning posture that could cause substantial damage to the United States regardless of arsenal size, nuclear weapons are also unlikely to be enough to deter conventional conflicts outside the United States.
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Read MoreWritten by Ratih Kabinawa
Epistemic networks in Taiwan and Southeast Asia might learn from the success of their counterparts in European and North American countries in establishing regional Taiwan Studies associations. The Taiwanese government should also play an active role in fostering the establishment of such associations.
Written by Aleksandra Gadzala Tirziu
In the case of Didi and China’s wider technological crackdown, it is then ideology, above all else, that is at the centre. Recognising and internalising this fact will help foster a better global understanding of China, and a better ability to anticipate what else is to come.
Read MoreWritten by Drake Long
The time for introspection should not wait for the COVID narrative to shift once more. After all, the crew change crisis is still not over: the world has just entered its 30th month of leaving its seafarers out at sea, with no safe harbour for them to find.
Read MoreWritten by Kunal Singh
A New Delhi which is less interested in balancing China will be less useful to its partners in the Quad, and India is indeed the only Quad country to have engaged China in military combat for many years.
Read MoreWritten by Huynh Tam Sang
Expanding on the new, positive momentum in EU-Taiwan relations, Mr Gahler also underscored the role of the European Parliament’s decision to work on its first-ever stand-alone report on Taiwan in its Foreign Affairs Committee, evaluating the prospects of broadening and deepening cooperation between Brussels and Taipei.
Read MoreWritten by Velina Tchakarova
It will be interesting to follow how China will navigate this playground, as Beijing is likely to be the next great power to try and fill the void. Perhaps that is exactly why the US is pulling out now — the move could possibly become an American trap if China enters the Afghan quagmire and fails.
Read MoreWritten by Hunter Marston
It will take more than lofty speeches to bolster a shaky alliance with Manila and to raise the partnership with Hanoi to the next level, and an economic strategy, so far absent, should accompany a military presence if Washington is serious about reducing Beijing’s influence.
Read MoreWritten by Nicholas Borroz
Uplinking must relay instructions to spacecraft, and downlinking is required to turn the data they collect into valuable services. The communications segment has high barriers to entry, but if one can stomach the wherewithal required to enter it, then one can tap into a captive market.
Read MoreWritten by Phan Xuan Dung and Wichuta Teeratanabodee
Japan’s AstraZeneca provision stood out compared to China, thanks to its perceived better quality. In addition, China’s soft power has been seriously undermined by an assertion of hard power in territorial disputes and coercive diplomacy against states that refuse to toe its line.
Read MoreWritten by Jagannath Panda
India’s current and future plan to support, launch and take forward the Supply Chain Resilience Initiative with Australia and Japan points to New Delhi’s approach of building a stronger narrative that poses challenges to China’s economic moves and strategic motives.
Read MoreWritten by Amelia Hadfield and William Hitt
It reaffirms the anchor points of trans-Atlantic security alongside the values of democracy and human rights, but whether it can roll in all of Europe in this call as well as representing a clear challenge to rising antagonists remains to be seen.
Read MoreWritten by Franz J. Marty
While local reactions to the road are overwhelmingly positive, not everyone is happy though. Some Kyrgyz are apparently disillusioned by their past experience of promises of development in the Little Pamir that never materialised and remain sceptical that the road will change this.
