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Myanmar divided 0
- Asia Pacific
- December 15, 2016
Rebels in northeast Myanmar are spoiling for a fight with the military. They may get their wish.
Structurally unsound? China’s slowing economy 0
- Economics & Finance, Asia Pacific
- December 9, 2016
China’s risky economic reorientation could allow it to sustain its economic rise but a botched transition could wreak havoc.
Park’s rollercoaster: divining the fate of South Korea’s president 0
- Asia Pacific
- December 8, 2016
South Korea’s president faces impeachment. How will the vote affect domestic and regional politics?
China-Singapore relations in seizure 1
- Asia Pacific
- November 30, 2016
China has seized Singaporean military assets during transit. What will this do to their relations?
America’s eroding military position in East Asia 0
- Asia Pacific
- November 26, 2016
Budget cuts, the distractions of the War on Terror and increasingly outdated doctrine are tipping the military balance towards China.
The Chairman’s ghost? Xi Jinping and the Communist Party plenum 0
- China
- November 11, 2016
Chinese President Xi Jinping was recently granted “core” status. What does this mean for China?

Eating grass: the India-Pakistan rivalry renewed 0
- South Asia
- October 27, 2016
India-Pakistan relations are in crisis again. How close to nuclear war will the rivals go?
Down and Duterte: shakeup in the South China Sea 0
- Asia Pacific
- October 17, 2016
The Philippines’ new president is leaning away from America and towards China – is he hedging or is this a marked strategic shift?
China’s two-speed economy: strategic implications 0
- Economics & Finance
- September 22, 2016
The increasing disparity between different economic sectors and the regions they call home is a major challenge for Beijing.
Normalising Japan: rearming or alarming?0
- Asia Pacific
- September 14, 2016
As PM Abe pushes for constitutional reforms to let Japan rearm, what are Tokyo’s true intentions?
Risky business: financing ‘One Belt, One Road’1
- Economics & Finance
- August 23, 2016
Beijing’s risky lending practices and preference for Chinese companies endanger its banks.
Trump: all alone at SEA(sia)0
- United States
- August 16, 2016
A Trump foreign policy’s ability to fundamentally alter America’s trajectory is overestimated.