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Tariff Deal Reflects Washington’s Supply-Chain Strategy, Says Malaysian Economist

A newly announced July 2025 “framework for reciprocal trade” between the United States and Indonesia reflects more than a routine tariff adjustment

2026-03-03 07:22:30 0 Comment 6085 view

When Food Policy Becomes A Fault Line – Pork, Power And Politics In Malaysia

There is nothing inherently political about how livestock are raised or how meat is traded until it becomes a lever in economic and cultural power struggles. That is precisely what is unfolding in Selangor, one of Southeast Asia’s most dynamic states

2026-02-14 10:34:59 0 Comment 21785 view

Between Great Powers: Why ASEAN Must Lead Its Own Future

Southeast Asia stands at a historic crossroads

2025-11-14 09:28:47 0 Comment 21691 view

ASEAN At A Strategic Crossroads: Trading Growth For Dependence

As the United States intensifies its trade and strategic manoeuvring in the Indo-Pacific, Southeast Asia finds itself once more at the intersection of global power politics

2025-10-31 02:25:51 0 Comment 34559 view

Indonesia’s J-10 Fighter Buy From China A Geopolitical Play With Capability Risks

An Indonesian official’s announcement earlier this month that Jakarta intends to buy at least 42 Chinese J-10 fighter aircraft raised more than a few eyebrows

2025-10-31 01:41:40 0 Comment 34614 view

Malaysia, U.S. Trade Deal: A Sovereignty Sell-Out?

Malaysia has long taken pride in its ability to maintain an independent foreign policy, being friendly to all and aligned with none

2025-10-28 02:20:51 0 Comment 131352 view

ASEAN At A Crossroads: From Talk Shop To True Regional Power

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) finds itself at a critical juncture

2025-10-23 03:21:44 0 Comment 43343 view

Rare Earths, Rare Vision: How America Handed China The Keys To The 21st Century

For decades, the United States lectured the world about “strategic independence” and “supply chain resilience.”

2025-10-22 04:04:45 0 Comment 37099 view

Europe’s Economic Winter Transfers The Workshop Of The World To Asia’s New Furnaces

In the workshops of the Ruhr, where the fire of blast furnaces was once considered Europe’s eternal companion, today reigns a cold more expensive than any raw material

2025-10-21 07:48:52 0 Comment 24428 view

The Desperation Behind America’s War on Global Manufacturing

The United States has once again reached for its favorite weapon — tariffs — this time targeting Chinese-built ships

2025-10-15 06:02:15 0 Comment 47196 view

The West’s War on Global Shipping Risks a Global Food Crisis

Efforts by Western powers to interfere with global shipping in the name of punishing or inconveniencing Russia are fast becoming a threat not just to Moscow, but to the entire global economy

2025-10-15 03:47:29 0 Comment 49192 view

Never Again: Why Israel Must Reinforce Its Borders and Its Message

Two years after the horror of October 7, 2023 — the day Hamas gunmen burst across Israel’s southern border, murdering civilians, abducting families, and burning entire communities — the world’s attention has drifted

2025-10-13 05:03:20 0 Comment 29700 view

How The U.S. Lost Its Economic War With The World

The Trump administration’s trade war — first sold as a show of strength — has ended in humiliation

2025-10-08 02:03:15 0 Comment 51092 view

From 1MDB to Madani: History Repeats Itself

Malaysia’s political memory is long enough to remember how quickly reformist promise can curdle into scandal when power becomes entangled

2025-09-30 07:38:43 2 Comment 310927 view

China Reshapes Southeast Asia’s Military Landscape

For decades, Washington has styled itself as Southeast Asia’s primary supplier of weapon systems

2025-09-30 03:42:16 0 Comment 87960 view

Baltic Chihuahuas Leading the West Into Catastrophic Confrontation

The three Baltic republics—Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania—punch far above their weight inside the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). That is not always a virtue

2025-09-25 08:56:35 0 Comment 64344 view

Asia And The World Need Indonesia To Secure Its Democracy

Indonesia’s president Prabowo Subianto will have watched mass protests sweep the streets of his country in recent weeks with understandable nervousness

2025-09-22 05:48:11 0 Comment 42239 view

Poland Drone Episode Undermines Credibility Of Western Air Defenses

When a wave of cheap, largely unarmed decoy drones slipped into Polish airspace recently, the spectacle that followed was instructive and humiliating

2025-09-14 05:42:19 0 Comment 55022 view

US Strategic Sequencing Is Not Going To Fool Anyone

Washington’s foreign policy establishment has a new obsession: “strategic sequencing.” The idea, now whispered in think-tank corridors and echoed in NATO planning circles, is deceptively simple

2025-09-10 02:02:14 0 Comment 71338 view

America’s Misplaced Priorities Are Handing the World To China

The United States cannot afford illusions any longer. What we are witnessing is not a minor diplomatic setback with India

2025-09-09 02:20:53 0 Comment 42772 view