Yesterday, Singapore’s ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute published its State of Southeast Asia survey report for 2024, the release of which has become an annual gauge of elite opinion on key issues of regional and global import. This year’s survey, based on interviews with 1,994 policymakers, journalists, businesspeople, and pundits from the 10 countries of the Association … Read more
As China’s power and influence has grown, observers in the West have begun paying increasing attention to Southeast Asia, which has emerged as a key arena of competition between Beijing and its main rivals, including the United States. However, many studies of China’s relations with Southeast Asia tend to prioritize the role of the Chinese … Read more
When I studied history at university, a lecturer instructed us to read the diaries and memoirs and newspaper articles written a few weeks before a global disaster. How did the ordinary Frenchman regard the state of the world in June 1914? What was the average Pole thinking in August 1939? Then we were instructed to … Read more
Advertisement Beijing is beginning to reap the rewards of decades of deliberate industrial policy directed at accruing strategic resources plentiful across the Global South. This is the lesson of the remarkable news that, this year, China has surpassed Japan as the world’s largest exporter of automobiles. Halfway through 2023, China has exported over 2.5 million … Read more
Advertisement Today, Sydney’s Lowy Institute published new research showing that China has lost its status the largest single provider of development financing to Southeast Asia since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Southeast Asia Aid Map, which was released yesterday as an interactive map and accompanying report, tracks financing for more than 107,000 development … Read more