Economic and geopolitical necessity drives ASEAN countries to stand against isolationism and choose economic openness.

This piece is part of a series of articles covering the medieval and early modern great powers of each of Asia’s regions: East Asia, Central and North Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and West Asia ...

Policymakers and scholars in the West talk about Southeast Asia as a coherent region, but it has always been divided. The region’s 700 million people speak hundreds of languages and follow different ...

A branch of the China-founded chain Mixue in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/源義信 When the China-U.S. trade war first broke out in 2018, it prompted many Chinese exporters to use ...

A new regional assessment shows that Southeast Asia is a major net source of greenhouse gases, with land-use change and rising fossil fuel use overwhelming natural carbon sinks, reservoirs that store ...