As governments trade efficiency for security, resilience and strategic control, critical minerals are driving a new era of ...

Taiwan’s AI-fuelled economic pivot from China to the United States has propelled the island to its strongest growth performance in years.

Taiwan’s constitutional crisis prevents proper defence budgeting, placing the country’s defence readiness and regional ...

For the new leadership team under re-elected General Secretary Thongloun Sisoulith, the core task is to translate this agenda ...

After inheriting a party in crisis, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi led her LDP to a thumping snap-election win — but ...

China has grown steadily, but its structural slowdown is coming at a time when it is contending with the aftermath of a property bust and heightened trade tensions. These challenges are likely to be ...

From defence reformer to political enforcer, Indonesia’s Minister of Defense Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin now wields influence across ...

Beneath Nepal’s seemingly healthy economic indicators lies a deep crisis of confidence among investors, businesses and young workers that demands structural reform.

The collapse and outlawing of Bangladesh’s once-dominant ruling party has opened space for complex alliances of youth-led and ...

Japan’s plan to lift weapons export restrictions marks a political shift, though a limited defence industrial base and labour ...

Sanae Takaichi’s sweeping victory, powered by personal popularity and digital savvy, now faces the hard test of governing ...

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s popularity is waning as a year of political blunders fuels the resurgence of the ...