Authors: Geethanjali Nataraj and Richa Sekhani, Observer Research Foundation After tense ties during the Rajapaksa administration, newly elected Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena’s decision to visit...
Author: Peter Drysdale, East Asia Forum After a decisive election victory on 14 December, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe would seem to be in an extremely...
Author: John Gibson, University of Waikato China recently announced strict controls to stop big cities expanding on to neighbouring farmland. The Minister for Land and Resources...
Authors: Margareth Sembiring and Julius Cesar I. Trajano, Nanyang Technological University The Southeast Asian region is now viewed as an oasis of socioeconomic development. But the...
Author: Sanchita Basu Das, ISEAS What will it take to change the way Asia thinks about trade strategy? As the negotiators of the RCEP agreement are...
Author: Michael V. Gestrin, OECD State-owned enterprises have played a relatively minor role in the era of investment-driven globalisation that began in the 1970s. As recently...
Author: He Fan, CASS and ANU Chinese President Xi Jinping is attending the 9th G20 Summit in Brisbane and is about to make a formal state...
Author: Andrew Elek, ANU APEC leaders will meet in Beijing in November, 25 years after the APEC process was launched in Canberra in 1989. Some early...
Author: Shen Dingli, Fudan University There is currently much talk about whether China’s President Xi Jinping is shifting away from collective leadership. Western observers tend to...