Rising Asia

China turns up heat in maritime heart of SE Asia        Faced with expansive and increasingly assertive Chinese claims to control as much ...

Japan muddies water in South China Sea debate         The ongoing wrangle over jurisdiction of the disputed South China Sea took a new tur...

Vietnam’s power shift          Vietnam’s rapid industrialization will necessitate a shift in the way the country generates power, while ba...

ASEAN responds to concerns about regional food security         The Association of Southeast Asian Nations has pushed food security to the...

Trade currency settlement         In May, the finance ministers of Korea, China and Japan agreed to study the feasibility of using their o...

The secret to Asia’s long-term prosperity? Improving roles of women at work             No one can dispute the strides Asia has made in b...

Threats to the realization of India’s potential         For all of India’s many and weighty advantages and its present trajectory, a fatal...

China’s Indian Ocean ‘String of Pearls’ is no military treat – at least for now         With the Western world mired in a debt crisis, the...

Indonesia’s and global development         The global economic recovery remains fragile and uncertain, as risks posed by high energy and f...

India’s South China Sea Warning         An influential Chinese Communist Party-run newspaper has warned that ‘every means possible’ should...