All major powers—the U.S., China, Japan, the European Union, and India—saw an increase in trust from Southeast Asia this year ...

EUROPE needs to spend at least £60 billion to rapidly complete its so-called “battle map”- the rail ... One problem is that capitals in central and eastern Europe have often been unwilling ...

And in 2018, Vietnam cut a scene from the romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians that featured a designer bag with a map of the world showing the disputed South China Sea islands under Beijing’s control.

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The news for some of Southeast Asia’s big stock exchanges has not been great lately. Since mid-September 2024, the Jakarta composite index has declined by around 18 percent. On March 18 ...

BEIJING – Dozens of foreign CEOs will visit Beijing in March for a flagship development conference, where some are expected to meet President Xi Jinping, according to a draft agenda and three ...

Meanwhile, Marine Rotational Force – South East Asia (MRF-SEA) began Exercise Valiant Mark 25 in Singapore on Monday, its final engagement before returning to the United States by the end of ...

BEIJING: China's Baidu said on Sunday (Mar 16) it has launched two new artificial intelligence (AI) models, including a new reasoning-focused model that it said rivalled DeepSeek's model, as it ...

These trends challenge industrial economies all over the world. The effects are felt especially strongly in Asia’s developing, middle-income economies. In addition to geographic proximity, these ...

Gregory Poling is Senior Fellow and Director of the Southeast Asia Program and the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington DC.