The world’s income and wealth inequality is said to have reached an “alarming” level two years into a global pandemic that has killed at least 5.5...
Author: Wang Yong, Peking University The COVID-19 pandemic and major power competition tested China in 2021. A review of the trends of 2021 reveals the opportunities...
Author: Nguyen Khac Giang, Victoria University of Wellington The Mekong region started 2021 with a blow as the Myanmar military overthrew the country’s democratically elected government....
China has ambitious plans to boost domestic soybean output by 40 per cent over the next four years, as an over-reliance on imports of the commodity...
Author: Kerry Brown, King’s College London In 2021 China was, and in 2022 again will be, dominated by the domestic economy, relations with the United States,...
Author: Andrei Lankov, Kookmin University The 2018–2021 period can be seen as an important turning point in Korean history. In the space of a few years,...
China’s largest soybean producing province has taken its first step to boost production in 2022, following Beijing’s recent warning about dependence on imports for a commodity...
Author: Editorial Board, ANU Japan’s Fast Retailing CEO Tadashi Yanai, who runs the Uniqlo clothing chain, declared that his company wouldn’t be choosing between the United...
Author: Amitav Acharya, American University Southeast Asia is no stranger to strategic competition. But its ‘new geopolitics’ is different from those that existed during the Cold...