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 ...

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 ...

Pornomo Rovan Astri Yoga is a PhD candidate in International Law at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), UOW and an officer in the Indonesian Navy (TNI AL). His ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Takeo Otani is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Territory and History, The Japan Institute of International Affairs. He is also a doctoral researcher at Hitotsubashi University, specialising in ...

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.

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 ...

East Asia Forum (EAF) is a platform dedicated to publishing accessible analysis on Asia, from Asia. EAF articles feature policy analysis and comment on politics, economics, business, law, security, ...

Ye Zhang is Research Analyst at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

Junqing Zhang is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University. His research interests focus on illicit economic flows, particularly online gambling in China ...