Victor Crochet is Partner at Nishimura & Asahi. He is also a PhD student at Cambridge University where he conducts research on international trade and investment law. Victor also regularly teaches and ...

Rommel Banlaoi, PhD, is the President of Philippine Society for International Security Studies and Chairman of the Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research. He used to teach at ...

Purnendra Jain is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Adelaide, Australia, where he served as Professor of Japanese Studies for twenty-five years. Jain holds a ...

Data Avicenna holds a Masters in Economic Policy from the Research School of Economics, The Australian National University. Prior to his Masters, he obtained his Bachelor of Economics from Universitas ...

Takeo Otani is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Territory and History, The Japan Institute of International Affairs. He is also a doctoral researcher at Hitotsubashi University, specialising in ...

Anthony Saich is Daewoo Professor of International Relations and Director of the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

The 15th Five-Year Plan approved by the National People’s Congress on 12 March embeds President Xi Jinping’s vision for the nation’s future development based on the securitisation of the economy, with ...

Crackdowns on Southeast Asia’s online scam industry have exposed the scale of exploitation within it, leaving many trafficked workers stranded and highlighting a growing humanitarian crisis. Yet these ...

In early 2026, the ‘Chinamaxxing' trend swept across Western platforms, with users 'becoming Chinese’ by embracing practices like drinking hot water, learning Mandarin and performing qigong. Though ...

East Asia Forum (EAF) is a platform dedicated to publishing accessible analysis on Asia, from Asia. EAF articles feature policy analysis and comment on politics, economics, business, law, security, ...

At the pump, consumers across the world are reliving the kind of price shocks that defined the oil crises of the 1970s. Petrol prices that hovered around 180 cents per litre in early 2026 have surged ...

Global foreign direct investment is under pressure from rising protectionism and policy uncertainty driven by the United States’ shift away from open trade, that is undermining investor confidence and ...