Thailand’s National Anti-Corruption Commission announced recently it will indict 44 former MPs of the now-dissolved progressive Move Forward Party for seeking to amend Section 112 of Thailand’s ...

North Korea has rarely admitted the presence of its troops in foreign battlefields, let alone in an ongoing conflict. However, in late April, it did just that. North Korean chairman Kim Jong-un ...

The Philippines signed a Status of Visiting Forces Agreement with New Zealand last month, regulating the deployment of troops for joint military exercises. The agreement marks a significant milestone ...

Over the past year, China’s President Xi Jinping has undertaken two waves of purges of high-ranking military leaders from the People’s Liberation Army. The first wave targeted the PLA Rocket Force, ...

One potentially revealing way of thinking about the respective strengths and weaknesses of the American and Chinese approaches to politics and economics is to consider the performance of their car ...

The Philippines made history by handing over former president Rodrigo Duterte this month to the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of crimes against humanity. In many ways, the move has ...

The Mar-a-Lago Accord is an idea floated by Stephen Miran, recently appointed Chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers. Such a deal, Miran claims, would address the US current account and ...

To be sure, China undoubtedly plays a much larger role in some areas. One important study finds that indirect Chinese imports via third countries are higher in strategic sectors. Last year, America ...

After months of uncertainty about its future, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio last week confirmed the near-total gutting of USAID. With some 83 per cent of programs officially cut, the announcement ...

The post-pandemic period in most economies has been characterised by skills shortages and budgetary pressure on government entitlement programs. These are consequences of demographic changes that, ...

For several years, the US security establishment appeared fixated on the year 2027 as the deadline set by Xi Jinping to compel Taiwan with military force. First raised by then-INDOPACOM commander ...

WHO’s budget was already spread thin, and its mandate keeps growing, with budget estimates for 2026-27 already 9% higher than the current biennium. But the loss of US funding – particularly its ...