From Partnership Expansion to Strategic Coherence: Vietnam’s Next Foreign Policy Challenge
INTRODUCTION: Vietnam’s pursuit of Comprehensive Strategic Partnerships has long been part of its foreign policy calculus. The challenge now is maintaining coherence across this wider network.
The Philippines’ Engagement with Japan: A Steady and Deepening Strategic Partnership
INTRODUCTION: As the Philippines faces a more complex strategic environment, security cooperation with like-minded countries is critical.
Cyberfraud in Southeast Asia: A New Battleground for the US and China?
INTRODUCTION: China and the US have reasons to work together to tackle the scourge of cyberfraud in Southeast Asia.
Southeast Asia and the Third Gulf War: Impact, Responses and Implications
INTRODUCTION: On 7 April 2026, it was announced that the US and Iran had agreed to a two-week ceasefire.
ASEAN’s Economic Agenda: Towards Greater Strategic Agency?
INTRODUCTION: As the global landscape becomes more fragmented, ASEAN’s challenge is no longer simply to remain open
Japan-ASEAN’s vision for “Co-Creating” AI
INTRODUCTION: Amid growing Sino-US rivalry and technological bifurcation, Japan and ASEAN should work together on “co-creating” AI models which are more inclusive.
The Philippines’ Engagement with Japan: A Steady and Deepening Strategic Partnership
INTRODUCTION: In a speech delivered in August 2025, President Ferdinand R Marcos Jr reiterated his earlier observation
ASEAN’s Gulf ties put diversification to the test
INTRODUCTION: ASEAN has long framed trade diversification as a strategic priority, but in practice its economic ties have become more regionally concentrated
The EU and Singapore: Partnering for Resilience in the Indo-Pacific
INTRODUCTION: As the world moves unprepared from a rules-based order, there is an urgent need for greater cooperation among regional and extra-regional countries to address the arising challenges.
The South China Sea – Ten Years After the 2016 Arbitral Award
INTRODUCTION: The Philippines chairs ASEAN this year on the tenth anniversary of an arbitral award in its favour.