Zha Daojiong argues that the future of the ASEAN-China dialogue partnership will depend not only on deepening economic integration, but also on managing industrial competition, addressing economic ...

ASEAN has ambitious plans to implement a regional power grid. But there is a critical need to improve technical and industrial capacity in subsea power systems.

The Communist Party of Vietnam must ensure that Hanoi’s redevelopment remains socially and politically inclusive, addressing community concerns that they are bearing the costs without sharing in ...

It is not a given that the Tatmadaw will gain the upper hand in the civil conflict in Myanmar. A new consensus should include the resistance coalition. Regional governments, including key ASEAN ...

There are clear reasons for allocating bigger grants to Sabah and Sarawak in Malaysia’s latest budget. But there is also a need to establish a more transparent and rules-based formula for ...

The Malaysian government’s latest budget contains several goodies for prospective voters. However, where the governing coalition’s general election performance is concerned, timing will be ...

The credibility of AI governance in Southeast Asia will be decided not by the volume of frameworks that exist, but by whether some identifiable institution has the authority to stop a deployment, the ...

Southeast Asians are divided over whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) helps or harms the environment. Regional governments should push data centres to be more transparent about how their ...

AI-related exports are a bright spot in an otherwise gloomy global economy. This represents an opportunity for Southeast Asia.

Lucas Myers is Assistant Director of the China and U.S. Program (CUSP) at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy and a nonresident visiting scholar with the George Washington ...