Category : Updates

Building a heatwave&resistant India

Authors: Simrit Kaur and Harpreet Kaur, University of Delhi Heatwaves in India have turn into extra frequent, prolonged, intense and geographically spread-out. Twelve of the country’s warmest 15 years have been since 2006, with dying tolls rising th...

Sri Lanka’s crisis of legitimacy

Writer: Dushni Weerakoon, IPS Sri Lanka’s slide into political instability since April 2022 culminated in the resignation of former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa following public protests on 9 July 2022. The government’s coverage blunders and resista...

The prospects of Japan’s post&pandemic tourism

Writer: Yusaku Yoshikawa, JIN Corporation On 10 June 2022, Japan finally started permitting international vacationers into the nation for the primary time in two years after the COVID-19 pandemic started. Looking for to stability its reopening and s...

Is Japan ready to reopen its borders?

Authors: Fuma Aoki and Yves Tiberghien, UBC Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s preliminary easing of COVID-19 restrictions was dramatically reversed following the arrival of Omicron in late November 2021. He most notably shut down the Japanese...

Shinzo Abe’s legacy

Writer: Editorial Board, ANU On eight July 2022, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was gunned down while giving a campaign speech in help of candidates for the 10 July upper home election. The killing of Japan’s longest serving prime ministe...

Japan’s defence policy faces a critical juncture

Writer: Kristi Govella, German Marshall Fund 2022 was anticipated to be a defining yr for Japanese safety coverage even earlier than the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Public debates and inner negotiations have been ongoing for months over the country...

Hun Sen’s son set for electoral success

Writer: Sokvy Rim, The Thinker Cambodia The Cambodian Individuals’s Get together (CPP) achieved a landslide victory in the commune elections in June 2022, gaining 80 per cent of the 11,622 commune council positions. But there's speculation that Camb...

India mulls aid in Sri Lanka’s hour of need

Writer: Ganeshan Wignaraja, NUS Sri Lanka’s pre-emptive default on its overseas debt obligations in mid-April 2022 and just lately resigned president Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s flight from Sri Lanka on 12 July supplies India with a chance to match China i...

Looking beyond the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo&Pacific

Writer: Shafiah F Muhibat, CSIS What is the way forward for the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific (AOIP)? Almost three years after its finalisation, there have been hardly any efforts to operationalise the report from within ASEAN or by way of engag...

India’s cautious return to Afghanistan

Writer: Manoj Joshi, ORF Regardless of being knocked off its ft by the collapse of the Ghani authorities of Afghanistan in mid-August 2021, New Delhi has shortly re-established its presence in the new Taliban-led Afghanistan. In early June 2022, a s...

Vietnam and the new Pacific Trade Triangle

Writer: Tran Van Tho, Waseda University Vietnam is very integrated into the global financial system and since 2017, trade has persistently sat above 200 per cent of GDP. Vietnam has commerce relationships with more than 150 nations, however the majo...

Maintaining momentum for structural reform in the Philippines

Writer: Ramonette B Serafica, PIDS Six years in the past, in his first State of the Nation Tackle, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte underscored the necessity to chill out economic restrictions to draw more funding. Included in the legislative ag...

Hong Kong’s case for RCEP membership

Writer: Julien Chaisse, City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong just lately utilized to hitch the Regional Complete Financial Partnership (RCEP). The underlying purpose of RCEP is to create an built-in market across the area. RCEP accounts for roughl...

Japan draws India closer amid intensifying power politics

Writer: Chietigj Bajpaee, King’s School London The renewed polarisation of the worldwide system following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the intensification of the US–China strategic rivalry is growing strain on other nations to select sides. But...

The international financial consequences of Mr Putin

Writer: Barry Eichengreen, UC Berkeley What will be the demonstration impact of Western sanctions on Russia? And what will be the response of China and of other nations fearful about similarly being on the outs with the USA? Will they shift their ov...