- December 25th, 2025
2025 has been a year of dramatic twists in global trade, technology, and geopolitics, with one lesson standing out: never underestimate China. At the beginning of the year, the world’s second-largest economy appeared to be in steep decline. Economists predicted...
China now leads the world in nearly 90% of the “critical technologies” that can significantly boost or endanger national interests, according to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s (ASPI) latest Critical Technology Tracker report, underscoring Beijing’s rapid ascent across a wide...
As 2026 approaches, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) finds itself in the uncomfortable position of a central bank whose warnings no longer command the market’s trust. Last week, Governor Kazuo Ueda’s policy board followed through on months of signaling by...
The Philippines will assume the annually rotating chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for 2026, inheriting a crowded and combustible agenda at a moment of unusual strain for both the regional bloc and the wider international order....
After several weeks marked by suspended flights, bans on Japanese seafood imports, cancelled cultural events performed to empty arenas, stepped-up military activity, and even reported fire-control radar lock-ons by fighter aircraft, relations between Japan and China remain deeply strained. While...
Not too long ago, the reputation of IndiGo, India’s largest budget carrier, appeared unassailable. With a dominant 65 per cent share of the domestic passenger market, a fleet exceeding 400 aircraft, and more than 2,000 daily flights, IndiGo had become...
Southeast Asia is often described as one of the world’s most demographically advantaged regions. Home to more than 680 million people, over half of its population is under the age of 30. This youthful profile has long been touted as...
Asia’s economic miracle was built on trade. For decades, export-led growth lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, created vast manufacturing workforces, and offered young people a reliable ladder into the middle class. That model is now under severe strain...
The 1823 proclamation effectively positioned the United States as the political gatekeeper of Latin America, setting in motion nearly two hundred years of interventions, military occupations, regime changes and covert operations across the region. For much of the 19th and...
Earlier this year, a phrase ricocheted across Chinese social media platforms, encapsulating a fear that has long simmered beneath the surface of the country’s economic narrative. The phrase — “getting old before getting rich” — captured, with chilling clarity, a...
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