As the 2026 APEC chair, China has the opportunity to lead by example on an enhanced services and digital cooperation agenda ...

Relations with Beijing will also improve considerably. North Korea will seek normalisation of trade relations and economic ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is seeking to emulate the economic policies of her mentor Shinzo Abe, but this agenda ...

As we begin the New Year, East Asia Forum would like to acknowledge and pay tribute to the legacy it owes to significant ...

The Japanese economy remained generally strong in 2025 despite the Trump tariff shock. Growth reached the level of its ...

Sri Lanka appeared on track to recover from the economic fallout of its 2022 external debt default until Cyclone Ditwah ...

In 2026, Japan’s fragmented Diet will have less room to govern as economic pressures, demographic decline and regional uncertainties sharpen policy trade-offs ...

Prioritising public health in intellectual property rights is what the doctor ordered for low- and middle-income countries to ...

Graft and elite capture are choking Pakistan’s growth and only civic renewal with real reform of taxes, procurement, SOEs and ...

Japan’s long-standing coalition cracked when Komeito chose its identity over power, walking out rather than be tainted by the ...

Indonesia’s energy transition will depend on how effectively the state reshapes the role of its state-owned electricity ...

East Asia’s stablecoins must overcome the same network effects that have kept Europe stuck on the margins of a US ...