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Japan Is the New Leader of Asia’s Liberal Order
Chang Che, Foreign Affairs | Over the last decade, and especially over the last four years, Japan has emerged as a quiet leader in the...


Three Tensions in Biden’s International Economic Policy
Matthew P. Goodman, CSIS| With strategic perspective and process discipline, the Biden administration should be able to reconcile the...


The Newest Diplomatic Currency : Covid-19 Vaccines
Mujib Mashal, The New York Times | India, the unmatched vaccine manufacturing power, is giving away millions of doses to neighbors...


Singapore Builds One Of World's Biggest Solar Farms To Fight Climate Change
Vishal Tiwari, RepublicWorld | Singapore is building one of the world's largest floating solar farms off the coast to support the...


Heightened tensions between three Asian nuclear powers
Myra MacDonald, Chatham House| All three of these frontlines are becoming more volatile. An India-Pakistan ceasefire on the Line of...


Biden’s Asian Triangle
Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Project Syndicate| The Japan-US alliance remains popular in both countries, which need each other more than ever....


Trade Can Drive a Revived U.S. Strategy in Asia
Alexander Feldman, Foreign Policy | U.S. relations with Asia have been hobbled by outgoing President Donald Trump’s isolationism, which...


Who gains from RCEP, Asia’s new trade pact?
The Economist | The world’s newest and biggest regional trade deal is not the deepest. It eliminates fewer tariffs than normal, and some...


Backed by space technology, Asia-Pacific countries power sustainable development
Newsroom, Modern Diplomacy | Asian and Pacific nations are increasingly leveraging space technology and geospatial information to respond...


Vaccine Diplomacy is the New Space Race
Hal Brands , AEI | The space race was the ultimate symbol of Cold War technological competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union....


Japanese technology to Fight Covid-19 in Asia and Africa
Newsroom, Moderndiplomacy | Japanese technology and products will help countries in Africa and Asia limit the impact of the COVID-19...


There’s no need for panic over China’s trade threats
James Laurenceson, The Conversation| With China’s purchasing power over the next decade forecast to grow more than that of the US, Japan,...


Nine scenarios for the 2020 U.S. elections
The Japan Times | Kuni Miyake, the President of the Foreign Policy Institute, a private think-tank in Tokyo, draws nine scenarios that...


Looking Ahead: RCEP, Regional Value Chains and Indo-Pacific Recovery
Jeffrey Wilson, Perth USAsia Centre, Asia Society | RCEP will be the world’s second-most important trade agreement on arrival, ranking...


Pandemic worsens challenges of fragile states in Middle East and Central Asia, IMF says
Massoud A Derhally, The National | Coronavirus has led to remittances declining by as much as 25% in some countries during the first half...
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