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Gender norms in the Asia Pacific create unique corruption challenges for women, complicating efforts to tackle corruption on a larger scale, writes Caryn Peiffer. eastasiaforum.org/2025/05/23/tac…

Japan needs to revise its disinformation countermeasures by focusing on domestic disinformation, collaborating with other sectors and engaging in ‘prebunking’ strategies, writes Kyoko Kuwahara. eastasiaforum.org/2025/05/24/jap…

Despite rollbacks in the United States, Japan’s unique structural challenges demand increased corporate diversity at the top, writes Kumiko Nemoto. eastasiaforum.org/2025/05/24/jap…

Asian democracies must chart their own course, balancing political stability, economic growth and inclusion in ways that reflect regional realities, writes Diego Fossati. eastasiaforum.org/2025/05/25/bey…

What began as a regional rebuttal to liberalism has evolved into a global script for authoritarian regimes resisting democratic norms, writes Mark R Thompson. eastasiaforum.org/2025/05/25/asi…

Asia, comprising of everything from liberal democracies to authoritarian regimes, will be a central arena for ideological contests in an era of geopolitics and rapid technological development, writes our editorial board. eastasiaforum.org/2025/05/26/asi…

In a fragmenting global economy, China’s push to internationalise the renminbi reveals how economic and financial linkages are being selectively reshaped by Beijing in response to growing geopolitical uncertainty, writes Monique Taylor. eastasiaforum.org/2025/05/26/ret…

Though both sides have stepped back from the brink, any lasting resolution to the intermittent India–Pakistan standoff remains elusive, writes Arun Swamy. eastasiaforum.org/2025/05/27/ind…

China’s emissions trading scheme is not a shift towards market driven policy but rather designed to absorb market mechanisms into a state-led model of environmental governance, writes Ruoxuan Li. eastasiaforum.org/2025/05/27/the…

Uneven integration of foreign residents in Japan highlights the need for comprehensive support, as under-resourced local governments struggle due to institutional barriers, writes Yunchen Tian. eastasiaforum.org/2025/05/28/ins…

Donald Trump’s use of ‘national security' to justify drastic trade measures may help the global community define the devil it knows, writes Jaemin Lee. eastasiaforum.org/2025/05/28/tru…

Prabowo Subianto’s ambitious goals and populist agenda meet budgetary realities, with economic headwinds posing a threat to the legacy of his administration, write Geo Dzakwan Arshali and Muhammad Izzuddin Al Haq. eastasiaforum.org/2025/05/29/gra…

Persistent rice overproduction in Japan means that soaring rice prices are a symptom of systemic issues within Japan’s rice markets , write Yoshihisa Godo and Futoshi Yamauchi. eastasiaforum.org/2025/05/29/jap…

African demand, rather than Chinese will, is driving Chinese surveillance technology adoption across the continent, writes Bulelani Jili. eastasiaforum.org/2025/05/30/afr…

As Nepal shifts to decentralised governance it is struggling to implement to fair fiscal management, leading to calls for the restructuring of its grant allocation mechanisms, writes Kushal Pokharel. eastasiaforum.org/2025/05/30/nep…

The effective implementation of the Nextrade exchange could meaningfully address the ‘Korea discount’ and accelerate South Korea’s progress towards developed market status, writes Tom Ramage. eastasiaforum.org/2025/05/31/can…

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto’s joint development proposal with China ignores Indonesia’s sovereign rights under international law and threatens to legitimise the nine-dash line claim, writes Aristyo Rizka Darmawan. eastasiaforum.org/2025/05/31/pra…

The discombobulating new geopolitical realities compel us to develop frameworks that can catch up with a world order which has been in dynamic transition for some time, writes Evelyn Goh. eastasiaforum.org/2025/06/01/nav…

With revisionist great powers destabilising the world order, middle powers should seek to understand the diverse sources of order-building that can keep Asia peaceful and prosperous, writes our editorial board. eastasiaforum.org/2025/06/02/the…

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto’s directionless foreign policy approach represents a dangerous departure from Indonesia’s history as an important voice in global affairs, writes Virdika Rizky Utama. eastasiaforum.org/2025/06/02/ind…