Disputes over agricultural market access threaten to delay an India–US trade agreement, writes Biswajit Dhar.

By pulling Afghanistan into the Belt and Road orbit, Beijing and Islamabad have set a new test for India’s influence in the region. , writes Md Obaidullah.

Without stronger childcare, eldercare and community support, China’s pronatalist policies will fall short, writes Shiqi Shen.

To weather the storm of protectionism and shape the emerging international landscape, ASEAN and its dialogue partners must double down on ASEAN-centred regionalism, writes our editorial board.

Only ASEAN can offer credible economic leadership in the region through the flagship Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership. , write Mari Pangestu and Julia Tijaja.

ASEAN’s struggle to manage security crisis calls for a new regional maritime cooperation forum to strengthen Southeast Asia’s collective defence at sea, write John Blaxland and Ridvan Kilic.

The Asia Pacific’s Trump-led turn towards economic security may be an undeniable reality, but fragmentation carries serious risks, write Victor Ferguson, Viking Bohman and Darren Lim.

Myanmar’s rare earths are a source of local leverage and conflict, not a game-changer in global great power competition, writes Thant Thura Zan.

East Asia’s current legal framework fails address the tangible impact of manipulated or fabricated media, write Adam Au and Felicia Feiran Chen.

The next leader of the LDP could make or break China–Japan relations, write Shao Jingkai and Wang Guangtao.

Southeast Asian firms are measuredly optimistic in transitioning towards more digitally automated, productive and resilient business operations. , writes Faizal Bin Yahya.

Beijing must leave formal recognition an open question in its engagement with the Taliban. , writes Hao Nan.

Without decisive leadership and inclusive reform, Myanmar’s Spring Revolution risks dissolving into symbolism rather than achieving substantive change, writes Tin Shine Aung.

Pacific island countries can circumvent federal climate inaction by partnering with progressive US states through the Under2 Coalition, forging resilient pathways for cooperation, writes Henryk Szadziewski.

Struggles over hierarchy, not maps, lie behind long running Thai–Cambodian border clashes, writes Tommy Chai.

Coordinated intellectual property frameworks can power sustainable cooling across South and Southeast Asia, improving innovation, investment and accessibility, writes Seemantani Sharma.

Indonesia’s bold decentralisation experiment risks backsliding as more work needs to be done to promote local governments' fiscal autonomy, writes Sandy Maulana.

Indonesia has the credibility and opportunity to be a global player as the political and economic centre of ASEAN, but that will require delivering on its domestic reform agenda, writes our editorial board.

Indonesia’s path from discontent to growth depends on aligning domestic reform with global economic integration to build competitive industries that can create secure jobs, write Mari Pangestu and Shiro Armstrong.

The agriculture–tourism nexus offers an opportunity for Laos to broaden the benefits of connectivity gains from the construction of the Laos–China Railway, writes Toshiro Nishizawa.

Through bold reforms to its battery recycling industry, India can secure its supply of the minerals needed to power its clean energy transition, writes Mahesh Ganguly.

The Scarborough Shoal collision made clear that China’s South China Sea strategy is shifting towards higher risk tolerance and tighter links with broader security concerns, write Bo Ma and Zishu Li.

Trump’s tariffs have given India’s economy a sharp shock, forcing it to confront its vulnerabilities and accelerate integration and reform, writes Ankur Singh.

Prabowo’s mission to combat ‘greednomics’ ignores Indonesia’s mixed experiences with state control over its rice market, writes Pierre van der Eng.

Japan’s new Science Council of Japan Act risks eroding trust between the government and academia at a time when cooperation is critical for defence technology competitiveness, writes Kousuke Saitou.

Indonesia’s fragmented arms procurement risks creating a defence force that looks formidable but struggles in practice. , writes Alfin Basundoro.

Japanese prime minister resigns due not only to poor electoral performance but also strong pressure within his own Liberal Democratic Party, writes Willy Jou.

Growing public support in Taiwan for nuclear power is challenging the DPP’s ‘nuclear-free homeland’ agenda, underscoring the need for policy flexibility and dialogue towards pragmatic energy solutions, writes Shangpo Hsieh.

To recover agency and avoid strategic drift, Seoul must adopt a principled pragmatism grounded in clear priorities and durable institutions, writes Hao Nan.

Japanese politicians continue to grapple with their levels of remorse for the country’s actions during the Second World War, write Takuya Nishimura and Mindy Kotler.

A China–ASEAN clean energy–industrial mechanism could strengthen governance, skills and safeguards to ensure the region captures lasting benefits from the green transition, writes Kevin Zongzhe Li.

Myanmar’s resistance forces must combine internal capabilities with international engagement to outmatch the junta and resolve the country’s human capital crisis, writes Myat Sandar Zaw.

Trump’s trade offensive is shaking Southeast Asia’s confidence in the United States and accelerating its drift towards China, write Susannah Patton and Robert Walker.

Bridging the gap in the Australia–Japan energy partnership requires a shared narrative that aligns policy, standards and commitments to turn early investments into durable value, writes Hiroshi Matsushima.

Behind the economic boom, credit-fuelled and export-led growth is losing steam — Vietnam faces macroeconomic instability now and a development trap ahead, writes Cuong Nguyen.

Youth-led movements across Asia have toppled regimes in the name of anti-corruption, but few have gone on to addresses the structural conditions that hold back economic and social transformation, writes our editorial board.

Nepal once again stands at a new chapter in its political history, but much work remains to be done for this latest revolution to become a real turning point, write Rojan Joshi and Jae Brieffies.

Australia and Japan should codevelop a long-range conventional submarine as the centrepiece of a formal defence pact to complement AUKUS, hedge against strategic uncertainty and reinforce deterrence in the Indo-Pacific, write Alastair Walton and Jake Thrupp.

Bilateral trade deals with the United States will undermine ASEAN’s regional economic integration that only coordinated commitment to multilateral principles can secure, write Riandy Laksono and Dandy Rafitrandi.

Beijing is racing to keep debt from outpacing growth, but risk a balance sheet recession if it does not undertake deep fiscal reform, writes Stefan Messingschlager.

Indonesia’s persistent services deficit, driven by weak logistics and rising modern service imports, continues to weigh on the rupiah, making tourism the country’s most immediate and competitive option to stabilise its external position, writes Lucky Christ Nugroho.

Asia Pacific leaders must act decisively on climate change, or face far higher costs in lives, livelihoods and economic growth, writes Vinod Thomas.

As US tariffs bite, India is testing a cautious rapprochement with China. , writes Amit Ranjan.

Policymakers must exercise caution and restraint in their green industrial policy to avoid spiralling fragmentation of global markets, write Yves Tiberghien and Sun Ryung Park.

Japan’s constrained response to US and Israeli strikes on Iran highlighted the gap between its rhetoric on a rules-based order and the hard realities of alliance politics and energy dependence, writes Christopher Hughes.

History shows that the China–Russia bond is fragile and pragmatic, writes Xiaoyang Zhang.

Deeper national reform is needed to clear Hanoi’s air and protect public health, writes Thang Nam Do.

Trump’s protectionist blitz replaces supply chain efficiency with costly fragmentation and deepens geopolitical fault lines, writes Keith Rockwell.

Rhetoric notwithstanding, Asia Pacific neighbours take relatively few defensive actions against the goods that China subsidies, write Simon Evenett and Fernando Martin.

After Typhoon Danas, the fight against disinformation is as urgent for the country’s climate resilience as repairing panels and power lines, writes Elena Yi-Ching Ho.