Southeast Asia hedges between feasibility and desirability
Author: Cheng-Chwee Kuik, National University of Malaysia Can Southeast Asian states continue to hedge as US–China rivalry intensifies? To answer…
Australia’s defence ambitions need Southeast Asian trust
Author: Aristyo Rizka Darmawan, ANU Since its announcement in September 2021, AUKUS has been hotly debated both in Australia and…
Small powers caught in the US–China chips competition
Author: John Edwards, Curtin University and Lowy Institute There was a time when government spending to support particular industries was…
Content flow across the great firewall on WeChat
Authors: Haiqing Yu, RMIT University and Wanning Sun, UTS WeChat is a news-sharing and content-distribution platform where people can easily…
China and Indonesia’s self-serving Ukraine peace plans
Author: Jürgen Rüland, University of Freiburg On 24 February 2023, one year after Russia started its war of aggression against…
Overuse of financial sanctions risks dollar’s role
Author: Martin Chorzempa After a record-breaking wave of new sanctions on Russia, a longstanding debate on whether the overuse of…
Internal discord the greatest threat to Southeast Asian unity
Author: Joseph Chinyong Liow, NTU As great power rivalry casts its long shadow over Southeast Asia, the imperative of regional…
Can China help bring peace to Myanmar?
Author: Nicholas Farrelly, University of Tasmania The ASEAN Summit in Indonesia in May 2023 saw, once again, the problem for…
China’s Ukraine peacemaking aims to court Europe
Author: Ivan Lidarev, King’s College London China has made some very cautious peacemaking moves in the Russia–Ukraine war. In February…
CCP crackdown spooks entrepreneurs
Author: Gilles Guiheux, Universite Paris Cite In China, one of the consequences of the economic reforms launched in the late…