Tag: global supply chain shift

Southeast Asia is not the world's workshop or a passive trade partner. As the U.S.-China tariff war escalates, the region is asserting a new kind of agency, trade independence rooted in national interest. Economies like Indonesia, Vietnam, and Malaysia, at the end of the day, choose ...

Indonesia is moving quickly to convince Washington it’s not the problem — announcing trade concessions, cutting import duties on American goods, and signaling it’s open to buying more. All this was done to defuse tensions with U.S. tariffs about ...