Financial technology applications need to go beyond payments systems to provide a wide array of services, from lending to insurance, to new and existing banking customers
Will broad business liquidity support and efforts to bolster the labor market turn out to be necessary?
With the emergence of Bitcoin and other decentralized crypto-currency and central bank digital money, governments must now act like strategic oligopolists.
This punitive action will prompt economies in Asia to enhance their own mechanisms for support in financial crises and, over time, to reduce reliance on the US dollar.
Nationhood, citizenship and identity are more and more intertwined and complex in the globalized world.
If Beijing wants to recruit India to China’s efforts at reshaping the world order, it will have to be sensitive to New Delhi’s deliberate geopolitical balancing.
Countries in the region should focus on the opportunities offered by science diplomacy.
Are China's current food security measures sufficient to counter the long-term impact of the Russia-Ukraine war?
China faces difficult weeks and months in its struggle to get to the point where it can contemplate treating the coronavirus as endemic.
While the actions of Brussels and Berlin have been portrayed as something of a coming-into-their-own power play, the approach is redolent more of symbolism than substance
Asia Global Institute Fellow William H Overholt examines the geopolitics of Korea, focusing on its efforts to balance relations with China with its dependence on the US.
The Quad can be a strong coalition of influence within the United Nations that could counter China’s growing weight in the international organization.
Assessing the enormous challenges for the world’s two biggest economies as they focus on shoring up their global competitiveness.
An analysis of the provincial RCEP action plans which underpin Beijing’s grand strategy.
The tense situation could offer an opportunity for China to show global leadership by mediating between Russia and Ukraine.
What is at stake for the isolated Southeast Asian nation?
The virtual summit between Xi Jinping and Joe Biden last November has signaled the possibility of better communication and more effective diplomacy between both countries
Supply-chain strains must be addressed with urgent action, but this will require the collaboration of various parties whose values may not align.
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