Japan’s plans to revive nuclear power remain far from reality, with reactor restarts proceeding too slowly and operating capacity falling well short of government targets. Despite official projections ...

Amid rising energy security pressures, Indonesia is turning to one of its most underused resources — geothermal. The sovereign wealth fund Danantara has allocated US$120 million for 19 geothermal ...

ASEAN has long framed trade diversification as a strategic priority, but in practice its economic ties have become more regionally concentrated, with engagement with the Gulf Cooperation Council ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's visit to Australia in late April 2026 coincides with the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Basic Treaty of Friendship and Co-operation. Both countries face an ...

Indonesia under President Prabowo Subianto appears to have entered a post-Islamist arrangement, with no major Islamist party standing in open opposition. But this convergence rests on state coercion ...

The 15th Five-Year Plan approved by the National People’s Congress on 12 March embeds President Xi Jinping’s vision for the nation’s future development based on the securitisation of the economy, with ...

India and Nepal are upgrading their bilateral partnership, with a landmark power trade agreement, cross-border transmission upgrades and petroleum pipeline expansion marking a new phase in the ...

Rommel Banlaoi, PhD, is the President of Philippine Society for International Security Studies and Chairman of the Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research. He used to teach at ...

Dr Raymond Atje is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta.

Emma Dalton is a Japanese studies scholar with interdisciplinary research interests in sociology and political science. Her research is concerned broadly with gender inequality in Japan and more ...

Purnendra Jain is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Adelaide, Australia, where he served as Professor of Japanese Studies for twenty-five years. Jain holds a ...

Anthony Saich is Daewoo Professor of International Relations and Director of the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.