Author : East Asia Forum

Increasingly reliant on each other for sustainable economic growth, the United States and China have fallen into a classic co-dependency trap, bristling at changes in the rules of engagement....

Malaysia’s manufacturing sector is reversing to a state reminiscent of its post-colonial stage of development. Regrettably, this situation was avoidable. When the Federation of Malaya gained independence from Britain...

In late September 2015, the Presidents of China and the United States reached a number of agreements on cyber security, cyber espionage, and cybercrime. They provide for a new...

The Greek crisis has periodically dominated international headlines since 2009, when its economic and fiscal crunch led to a series of debt downgrades and ushered in fears of default....

Pundits and policymakers increasingly see changing great-power politics in Asia as a challenge to ASEAN. China’s growing military assertiveness in the South China Sea, the US ‘rebalancing’ strategy, Japan’s...

The decision of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to slash the repo rate (the rate at which the RBI lends to commercial banks) by 50 basis points (bps)...

According to United Nations World Population Prospects 2015, Singapore will become a super-aged society by 2026. By then, one in five people in the country (or 1.25 million) will...

Ongoing disputes in the South China Sea between China and four ASEAN member nations — Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam — have dealt a major blow to the...

According to the central Chinese government, solving rural poverty and environmental degradation problems will require resettling more than 10 million citizens by 2050. This number does not include the...

Russia has recently raised the priority given to East Asia in its foreign policy. This trend has further accelerated following the outbreak of the Ukraine crisis in 2014. How...