Security

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Ryosuke Hanada, Macquarie University Prime Minister Kishida Fumio has promised to ‘substantially increase’ Japan’s defence budget by the end of 2022. While some observers expect Japan to double defence…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Kishore Mahbubani, Asia Research Institute, NUS Populations in Western countries are angry. Western elites, who are supposed to lead their societies in the right direction, are instead leading them…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Choong Yong Ahn, Chung-Ang University South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol set the tone of South Korea’s new economic diplomacy by declaring he would ‘build a nation that espouses liberal…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Kuyoun Chung, Kangwon National University The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue met in Tokyo late last month to affirm the continued cooperation between the United States, Australia, Japan and India to…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Lurong Chen, ERIA Digitalisation — the use of digital technologies and digital-enabled solutions in socio-economic activities — has triggered global changes that are wider and less predictable than ever…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Authors: William Choong and Sharon Seah, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute The wilderness years of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (the Quad), after its initial inception during the 2004 Asian tsunami, are over….

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Gordon Nanau, University of the South Pacific A draft security agreement between Solomon Islands and China was leaked on social media on 24 March 2022, sparking anxious reactions locally…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Arif Rafiq, Vizier Consulting When a suicide bomber killed three Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver several weeks ago in Karachi, China–Pakistan relations were already being tested by Pakistan’s…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Francis Domingo, De La Salle University The emergence of cyberspace as a domain of strategic competition has made it more complicated for the Philippines to leverage the advantages of…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Melissa Mahoney, Johns Hopkins University Japan’s response to the annexation of Crimea in 2014 was lacklustre. It took considerable US pressure to push Japan to act. Once Japan did,…