Samoa’s first female Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata’afa faces entrenched patriarchal forces as she fights for re-election.

Associate Professor Sonia Palmieri is Head of the Department of Pacific Affairs, Coral Bell School of Asia and Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University.

Caught between the United States and China, Vietnam and Cambodia choose economic pragmatism over political frictions.

Australia has to face the possibility that the United States under Trump is part of the problem rather than the solution to ...

Xi Jinping's Southeast Asian tour exploited US tariff threats to promote nationalist messaging, positioning China as a ...

Shenghua Zhang completed his PhD in Politics and International Studies at SOAS, University of London in 2024. He specialises in contentious politics in Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on ...

Trump’s trade talks face a tough finish as the ‘Liberation Day’ tariff deadline nears, emphasising his focus on auto tariffs, ...

While South Korea might have to offer a deal agreeable to Trump, Seoul has experience in finding compromise and defending ...

Upper House election approaches, the LDP leans on crisis rhetoric while the opposition fails to offer a credible plan to fund ...

Taiwan’s vulnerable position is only worsened by the growing misalignment between US Indo-Pacific strategic posturing and ...

Howard Shen is Research Director at the Asia Pacific Peace Research Institute. He was a foreign policy fellow at Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan’s Foreign Affairs and National Defence Committee. He received ...

Trump’s looming tariffs on Vietnamese goods threatens to upend the country's US export-heavy economy. To counter this, Vietnam must diversify its export markets to reduce dependence on the United ...