Beijing steps up efforts to use coordinated iron ore buying to turn its huge demand into leverage over global producers.

Ema Ivarature is a freelance researcher who has degrees in law and politics from Victoria University of Wellington, New ...

The East Asia Forum office is based in Australia and EAF acknowledges the First Peoples of this land — in Canberra the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people — and recognises their continuous connection to ...

Tonga’s next prime minister will determine whether power concentrates among nobility or whether Tonga retains a government ...

China’s military advances could give the Xiangshan Forum real strategic weight, but only if Beijing can match capabilities ...

Asia’s industrial policy successes rested on export discipline, early moves into sophisticated industries and a lead agency ...

Reda Cherif is a Senior Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Affiliated Researcher at the Bennett School for ...

Fuad Hasanov is a Senior Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Adjunct Professor of Economics at Georgetown University, Affiliated Researcher at the Bennett School for Public Policy at ...

Bangladesh’s 2026 general election will be consequential, but lasting stability depends on whether the political system can ...

In contrast to the more cautious posture of her predecessor Shigeru Ishiba, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s ...

Souring India–US relations under Trump 2.0 expose structural challenges facing Indian foreign policy and the need to ...

Trump’s return to ASEAN has pushed a transactional, economically driven approach that boosts short-term US influence but delivers few lasting gains. His use of tariffs, investment incentives and ...