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China-Asean relations are bigger than mere geopolitics

China-Asean relations are usually described in two ways. One emphasises danger: the South China Sea, US-China rivalry, military pressure and risk of Southeast Asia being pulled int...

Malacca Strait could be the next hinge point if Asia isn’t careful

US President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing, at a time of rising tensions over Iran, sanctions, tariffs and Taiwan, shows how far the Hormuz crisis has travelled beyond the battle...

Southeast Asia’s Mandalas of Multialignment

Prashanth Parameswaran joins the Asia Geopolitics podcast to explain how multialignment shapes Southeast Asia’s foreign policy and the region’s strategic importance.

A Major Move by India

Years ago, we at GPF predicted that the United States would try to reduce its involvement in the Eastern Hemisphere. Aside from his actions in Iran, President Donald Trump has larg...

The Indo-Pacific’s Dangerous Transition: Maritime Power and Strategic Fragmentation

The summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier this month was a hopeful sign that a strategic understanding is possible between the world’s...

Shangri-La Dialogue opens as Asia seeks alternatives to US shield

As Asia’s premier defense forum opens in Singapore on May 29, the annual Shangri-La Dialogue is morphing from a venue of superpower posturing into a high-stakes market for strategi...

Shangri-La Dialogue Reveals Asia’s Ambitions, Limits

Are the region’s states prepared to pay what autonomy costs?

Asia’s answer to the Thucydides trap

As Europe weighs less reliance on U.S. military, Asia doubles down

Tokyo, Seoul, Canberra and other capitals in the region believe U.S. military power is critical to counter the challenges from China and North Korea.

US’s New Military Geography Signals More Than a Name Change

Washington drops “Indo” from Indo-Pacific Command

Japan and South Korea Navigate a Turbulent World

Two neighbors, one alliance, and a great deal of uncertainty.

米国の存在感、低下する東南アジア　防衛力強化する日本への視線とは

Japan and Philippines Trump-proof efforts to check China's ambitions

Why the Shangri-La Dialogue finally really mattered

Under Singapore’s increasingly sweltering skies, the lobby of the Shangri-La Hotel in late May 2026 offered a revealing snapshot of a world edging toward deeper fragmentation. The...

To Not Lose Southeast Asia, the US Must Look to Northeast Asia

The U.S. may be losing a one-on-one contest with China for influence. But when you add its allies into the mix, the U.S. bloc is still leading the way.

Global tensions set to stalk Singapore's flagship defence summit

(Corrects name of political analyst in seventh paragraph)By Xinghui Kok and Greg TorodeSINGAPORE/HONG KONG, May 25 (Reuters) - War in Iran, strained U.S. commitments in Asia and ri...

The key to Indo-Pacific security

Next power move in China’s SE Asia strategy is nuclear

China’s expanding nuclear industry is becoming a new instrument of geopolitical influence across Southeast Asia. From Vietnam to Indonesia, governments increasingly view nuclear en...

Global tensions to dominate Asia defense forum

Indonesia-Singapore reset marks new era of ASEAN transactionalism

JAKARTA – The annual Indonesia-Singapore Leaders’ Retreat, held at Merdeka Palace in Jakarta on July 6, was more than a routine diplomatic exercise. With Indonesian President Prabo...

With the ‘Indo-Pacific’ label losing its lustre, China has an opportunity

Beyond the diplomatic choreography of last month’s Xi-Trump summit, what are the structural implications of a less confrontational US-China relationship for the Asia-Pacific? The s...

Trump-Xi summit reset cause for concern in Indonesia

The Trump-Xi summit in Beijing was supposed to signal a new phase of calmer US-China relations. Instead, it exposed a deeper reality that should concern Indonesia and much of South...

Trump and Xi: The Impact on Southeast Asia

Bart Édes explains what last week's landmark summit meant for ASEAN and the region's middle powers.