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India and Australia’s trade deal remains half-finished

Economic integration hasn't kept pace with geopolitical convergence.

  
What Southeast Asia’s platform-based credit boom doesn’t show

Automated lending creates exposure faster than traditional risk metrics can detect it.

  
Has Singapore made itself indispensable as a gateway for Chinese AI?

Chinese AI firms need Western capital. US giants want Chinese talent. Singapore is building the…

  
Zhang Youxia: the fallen general

Zhang may avoid execution, yet face a punishment designed to outlast his political life.

  
Trump hands Beijing a gift: nervous Asian allies

US unpredictability emboldens pro-China voices in Manila and Taipei.

  
Rohingya boats: Out of mind but still coming

Regional states may prefer not to see what is happening, but wilful blindness does not make the…

  
Why Australia should look west … to East Africa

Maritime security, critical minerals and digital resilience connect East Africa directly to…

  
Rebranding Europe’s energy transition from climate policy to survival

Brussels is turning climate policy into industrial strategy, hoping to step beyond populist…

  
The placebo risk to the Australia–Indonesia “common security” treaty

The language focuses on consultation and coordination without requiring concrete action when it…