Singapore quietly destroys China’s CPTPP bid
Singapore is the richest ASEAN nation, and given its importance as well as its small size, it has to try to balance ...
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The urgent need to revive the 1995 security pact between Australia and Indonesia
In early 1996, Keating warned that China would be a “great uncertainty” in the coming decades, much before the world ...
China finally wakes up to the Philippines, a challenge in its own backyard
China considered the Philippines an insignificant country, which was too small and too cute to cause Beijing any harm. Furthermore, ...
Vietnam mission is a total failure for Jinping as Japan saves the US from being run over by China
Biden’s indifferent attitude towards Vietnam handed over a fortune moment to China to attempt rallying Vietnamese leadership against the US ...
Did China try to jeopardise Kamala’s ASEAN visit with the mysterious Havana Syndrome?
Kamala Harris just ended another lacklustre State visit. First, Kamala faced a lot of embarrassment on her visit to Latin ...
The butterfly effect of Afghanistan on Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, The Philippines, and Thailand
The rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan has set the alarm bells ringing thousands of kilometres away in Southeast Asia. ...
Maphilindo: A failed experiment of the 60s but the need of hour today to stop China
Maphilindo : the Greater Malayan Confederation Maphilindo : As China ostensibly aggrandized itself in the past few decades, what followed ...
Russia’s engagement in ASEAN wakes Biden up from his Chinese slumber
The Biden administration has adopted a foreign policy of following others actions. This is a new low for the foremost ...
Biden’s Policy to contain China is pretty bad because it does not exist
President Joe Biden of the United States is attempting to lead on Asia despite having no concrete plans to visit ...
Ahead of ASEAN meeting with India, Japan, China and US, new ASEAN chair Brunei singles out China and terms it the biggest threat
The ASEAN countries have for a long time been re-calculating the arithmetics for their strategic autonomy and economic well being. ...
Rodrigo Duterte is losing Philippines and only his love for China is to be blamed for it
Although Rodrigo Duterte has appeared to be okay with the Philippines' sovereignty being slowly eroded at the hands of the ...
Australia, New Zealand and ASEAN nations are preparing to leave China as the only member of the RCEP
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement has started losing its shine way before than expected. Inked after 8 years of ...
