Search result for: "Thailand"

REEs Are A Risky Business

The Madani government is interested in developing Rare Earth Element (REE) extraction in Malaysia, especially the non-radioactive rare earth elements (NR-REE)

2025-11-12 12:16:03 0 Comment 8945 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 19011 view

Critical Minerals, Critical Mistakes: Why America’s Rare-Earth War Will Fail

The Trump administration’s recent drive to lock down access to rare-earths and critical minerals is being sold as a matter of national security. Yet what looks like strategic prudence on the surface amounts to geopolitical coercion in practice

2025-10-31 02:19:06 0 Comment 15621 view

‘America First’ Meets ‘ASEAN Way’ In Kuala Lumpur

The 2025 ASEAN and East Asia Summits in Kuala Lumpur beginning today are set to be consequential multilateral gatherings — defining not only ASEAN’s internal cohesion but also the shape of U.S.–China relations in the Indo-Pacific

2025-10-28 02:26:29 0 Comment 20291 view

Why Trump Is The Saviour For ASEAN And The World

President Donald J. Trump’s decision to attend the October 2025 ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur is a powerful three-pronged message to regional powers and adversaries alike

2025-10-27 12:55:09 0 Comment 15297 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 32753 view

Malaysia’s Fiscal Reform Is Not A Lottery — It’s A Course Correction

Recent commentaries have accused the Madani administration of turning the national budget into a “lottery ticket,” citing record expenditure and rising debt

2025-10-15 02:48:58 0 Comment 36670 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 55944 view

ASEAN Is Better Off With Washington

The 57th ASEAN Economic Ministers’ Meeting in Kuala Lumpur reflects the futility of the region’s entrapped dogma of economic and security hedging, without the intent to confront the truth

2025-09-29 04:03:40 0 Comment 24815 view

Trump Is Right About America’s Underappreciated Role And The Failure Of Globalism

President Donald Trump’s address to the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), on the issue of the role of the UN and the need for peace, struck a realistic chord

2025-09-25 12:37:31 0 Comment 28287 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 32102 view

Malaysia: A Central Pillar Of Chile’s ASEAN Strategy

While Thailand remains Chile’s largest ASEAN trade partner, Malaysia has emerged as a central pillar of Chile’s regional strategy

2025-09-22 05:37:28 0 Comment 32724 view

Malaysia Cannot Afford to Neglect Its Northern Border Any Longer

The border between Malaysia and Thailand has long been one of the country’s greatest national security blind spots

2025-09-09 02:40:54 0 Comment 25847 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 33375 view

Time For A Unified ASEAN Response In Dealing With China

The illusion of safety is gone. China is no longer a rising power politely asking for a seat at the table

2025-09-09 02:14:20 0 Comment 60318 view

Indonesia’s Street Unrest: A Regime-Change Play Aimed at BRICS

The optics are all too familiar. brooms raised “to sweep out corruption,” pink-clad demonstrators, and perfectly framed clashes spliced into viral clips

2025-09-04 06:15:28 0 Comment 77640 view

Thai Politics Once Again In Turmoil

Thailand’s political merry-go-round is expected to start to spin again later this week when the 500-member parliament convenes, with contending political parties jockeying to form a coalition to replace Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, ousted by the Constitutional Court last week after two months of suspension by the court

2025-09-04 06:06:06 0 Comment 39960 view

The ICC As A Tool Of Western Hegemony And Erosion Of Sovereignty In The Global South

For countries of the Global South, membership in the International Criminal Court (ICC) carries the real risk of losing sovereignty over both domestic and foreign policy

2025-08-30 10:24:01 0 Comment 43832 view

Trump’s Deterrent Factor and ASEAN’s Limited Hand in Thailand-Cambodia Discord

The Thailand-Cambodia conflict transcends the current ASEAN mechanism and capacity alone to deter or manage, seeing how its historical, contextual and nationalistic multi-factorial setting has shaped the spectrum of the conflict that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) alone is not able to fully resolve

2025-08-24 12:26:22 0 Comment 44660 view

Recalibrating Alignments: Bangladesh, D-8 And Malaysia’s Foreign Policy Crossroads

In the rapidly shifting landscape of Asian diplomacy, Bangladesh’s reported interest in joining ASEAN is more than a routine regional overture — it could signal the stirrings of a deeper realignment among Muslim-majority nations

2025-08-07 09:51:11 0 Comment 42280 view