While stablecoins may offer new tools for advancing China’s monetary ambitions, their decentralised logic sits uneasily with ...

Despite Iran’s outreach through the SCO, China’s cautious balancing and institutional constraints are limiting Tehran’s ...

Jesse Marks is the CEO and Managing Director of Rihla Research & Advisory LLC, a US–based firm focused on the intersection of the Middle East and China. From 2020 to 2022, he was a Middle East policy ...

Ian Seow Cheng Wei is a graduate of the University of Oxford’s Master of Philosophy in International Relations Programme. His research interests focus broadly on China's foreign and security policies, ...

The success or failure of China's security initiatives in Southeast Asia depends on the domestic politics of Southeast Asian ...

China’s dominance in rare earth processing is pushing the Quad to confront its strategic dependence and accelerate diversification.

While Vietnam is well-placed to reach upper-income status before its population peaks, low fertility rates may threaten national growth ambitions without cautious management and social change.

The Trump administration’s sweeping travel restrictions and refugee cuts signal a retreat from regional leadership when Asia ...

Okinawa’s fight reflects a broader struggle to reclaim indigenous sovereignty in the face of state-imposed legal and ...

Gerhard Hoffstaedter is Associate Professor in the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland, Australia.