Would Trump abandon Taiwan? | East Asia Forum
Oct 14, 2024 · While Taiwan spends roughly 2.5 per cent of its GDP on defence and has nearly doubled its defence budget over the past decade, Trump has stated that Taiwan should spend 10 per cent of GDP on defence. Relatedly, while the Biden administration has provided Taiwan with US$900 million in military aid since 2022, Trump’s resentment that ‘Taiwan ...
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ASEAN’s centrality in East Asia will slip away without leadership …
Sep 30, 2024 · The diminishment of ASEAN’s relevance through attrition is an unacceptable outcome for the majority of the region’s states. There is great value in having the terms of East Asian regionalism set by the small and middle powers of Southeast Asia. In this week’s lead article, from the new edition of the East Asia Forum Quarterly, ‘ The ...
India’s thirst for improved water security | East Asia Forum
Feb 27, 2024 · India has 18 per cent of the world’s population but only 4 per cent of its water resources, making it among the most water-stressed countries. The average per capita water availability for 2031 has been assessed to be 1367 cubic metres. Per capita annual freshwater availability in 2021 was lower than the Falkenmark Water Stress Indicator ...
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How Myanmar became the opium capital of the world
May 16, 2024 · Authors. Myanmar’s opium production, along with heroin exports, have skyrocketed since the 2021 coup, as economic and social turmoil leaves many farmers with few alternatives. The military regime, along with drug traffickers, often compel farmers to cultivate opium. This means that record-high profits from poppy seed farming are doing little ...
Japan should board the Indomalphi ship | East Asia Forum
Oct 2, 2024 · Capitalising on all four countries’ interests in deepening maritime security cooperation, Indomalphi should formalise Japan’s role as a capacity-building partner. Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur should pursue bilateral intelligence sharing agreements with Tokyo, modelled on the Japan–Philippines MoU. Japan should then join the trilateral ...
The ghost of Shinzo Abe looms large over Japan’s LDP election
Sep 26, 2024 · The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) will elect its next president and Japan’s next prime minister on 27 September 2024. Nine candidates have presented their policy ideas throughout the leadership race, and the most recent polling shows Shigeru Ishiba with a three-point lead over Sanae Takaichi and seventeen points in front of Shinjiro Koizumi.. One question is whether the next leader will ...
Industrial policy makes a comeback in East Asia
Dec 22, 2023 · A. Since the World Bank published The East Asian Miracle report in 1993, a myriad of studies debating the merits of industrial policy have appeared. Proponents argue that the success of Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan was due to selective industrial policies, including trade and protection policy, capital controls and labour market ...
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