Analysis

By Pam Castro The Philippines and China agreed on Tuesday to "de-escalate tensions" over the South China Sea, Manila said, following a violent clash in the disputed waters last month. Manila and Beijing have a ...

Transsion Holdings, the world’s fourth largest smartphone maker, is now eyeing Indonesia as its number one focus market in Southeast Asia. Engaging gaming communities, improving after-sales services, and innovative marketing are among Transsion’s top strategies to beat competitors in the archipelago, according to managers in Carlcare, ...

There was a brief moment earlier this year when it looked like the United States was going to succeed in its effort to put some distance between Peru and China. U.S. diplomats had lobbied hard behind the scenes to get the Peruvian government to reassess the ...

This article is co-authored by Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat, Director of the China-Indonesia Desk at the Center of Economic and Law Studies (CELIOS), and Yeta Purnama, researcher at CELIOS.  Recently, the spotlight has turned to Chinese investments in Indonesia's textile sector following remarks by ...

By Tsitsi Musasike, Jiaqi Lu, Adjekai Adjei, and Kevin P. Gallagher The second decade of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) promises to be bigger, better, and, importantly, greener. According to the Chinese Loans ...

By Chris Alden What happens when a card-carrying BRICS member has an election and changes government? Do changes in domestic politics produce changes in policy towards BRICS? South Africa’s recent election in which the leading internationalist party – the governing African ...

By Parvaiz Bukhari Lines on a map once meant little to India's Tibetan herders of the high Himalayas, expertly guiding their goats through even the harshest winters to pastures on age-old seasonal routes. That stopped ...

On June 12, 2024, Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan visited China. This was Luhut’s first visit to China this year.  Last time the Indonesian top minister visited China was in 2023, when he was ...

By Cecilia Springer China leads the world in domestic renewable energy installation and low-carbon manufacturing and is increasingly positioning itself as a climate leader through its development financing in the Global South. However, China ...

Filipino policymakers can't seem to agree on how to describe last week's violent confrontation between the China Coast Guard and the Philippine Navy. Over the weekend, we got word that the Philippine National Maritime Council determined that last Monday's incident was ...

By Lukas Fiala It’s hard to go a day without reading about new economic security measures on either side of the Atlantic. From EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles to the U.S. Treasury’s sanctions on China’s dual-use trade with Russia, the ...

By Matthew Walsh Ramming boats, building militarised islands, and threatening perceived trespassers -- China is escalating confrontations with the Philippines in a bid to push it out of the South China Sea, analysts say. One ...