China is making a strategic bet on renewable hydrogen as a way to carry clean electricity into the sectors electrification struggles to reach, such as steel, chemicals and long-distance transport. But ...

In 2024, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto won office with Indonesia’s largest-ever electoral mandate, but in 2026, public and market confidence are showing significant signs of strain. From the ...

China’s insistence on information control is a handicap in its artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions. While China dominates technologies like electric vehicles, batteries and robotics, it struggles ...

India’s Vikst Bharat 2047 vision aims to make the country an advanced manufacturing power by 2035, increasing the manufacturing sector’s contribution to GDP from roughly 17 per cent to 25 per cent.

China’s rapid rise as an exporter of advanced products — including electric vehicles, photovoltaics and batteries — is dominating headlines. Less appreciated is that as these high-tech, high-skill ...

India’s partial easing of the Press Note 3 investment restrictions in March 2026 reflects a shift towards asymmetric derisking rather than a broad normalisation of relations with China. New Delhi is ...

China’s growing manufacturing strength is reshaping Asia’s industrial landscape, creating concerns that its continued dominance in both low- and high-value manufacturing could make export-led ...

Michael Barr is Associate Professor of International Relations at Flinders University and a Deputy Editor of Asian Studies Review. He is author of ‘The ruling elite of Singapore: networks of power and ...

Given the entrenched gender inequality in Japan, the country ranks low in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index and exhibits a lacking advancement rate compared to other nations with a ...

The geopolitics of the South China Sea in 2025 were shaped by confrontation, militarisation and US–China rivalry. While some progress was made towards reaching an ASEAN–China Code of Conduct (COC) in ...

While Chinese soft power is thriving in the so-called ‘Global South’, it is waning elsewhere. This is illustrated by mapping the growth and decline of the Confucius Institutes — Beijing’s ...

China’s sprawling Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has become the crown jewel of its diplomacy in recent years. This ambitious undertaking aims to link nearly 150 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe ...