Wukong showcases the country’s rising cultural influence while reflecting the industry’s close ties to Chinese authorities, ...

ASEAN’s involvement in the South China Sea dispute began informally and incrementally. As Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, China and Taiwan firmed up their territorial claims, the dispute ...

In October 2024, Indonesia’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology asked Apple and Google to block access to Temu, a Chinese e-commerce application. This move aims to protect local ...

Beijing's anxiety over the ‘internationalisation’ of the Taiwan issue underpins Taiwan Strait tensions, as demonstrated by large-scale military exercises by the People's Liberation Army in late 2024.

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which includes 10 ASEAN member states and five Free Trade Agreement ...

South Korea’s criminalisation of deepfake pornography consumption is a promising step against digital sex crimes, imposing stricter penalties for production, distribution and viewing. But the ...

Following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war in October 2023, Japan's energy security is threatened by rising geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, where it sources over 95 per cent of its oil.

The United States' continued withdrawal from the global economy under the incoming Trump administration may result in large-scale retaliation from economic powers such as China and the EU, causing ...

When Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, the conventional wisdom was that we should take him seriously but not literally. This time, we ought to take him literally, too. Since his victory, he has ...

The Supreme Court of the Philippines’ decision to exclude Sulu from the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao is likely to cause unrest, escalate political tensions and disrupt public ...