East Asian countries have long balanced U.S. and Chinese influence, but the two countries’ intensifying rivalry is ...

On President Donald Trump’s much-touted April 2 “Liberation Day,” he unveiled a range of potentially debilitating “reciprocal” tariffs on the United States’ major trading partners—and most other ...

Strangely enough, the literature on “state capacity” – including that on industrial policy and on the entrepreneurial state – says very little about the people who staff the higher ranks of the state.

The Trump tariff shock has profoundly disrupted East Asia’s economic landscape, presenting mounting challenges for the region’s export-driven economies. The unjustified tariffs imposed on ASEAN, China ...

Territories and countries like South Korea and Hong Kong, part of the so-called “Asian Tigers” alongside Singapore and Taiwan, now view international students and intra-East Asian mobility as critical ...

AS MISSILES AND drones fly across the Persian Gulf, their impact is being felt an ocean away. This war is “an Asian crisis”, Vivian Balakrishnan, Singapore’s foreign minister, told Reuters last week.

East Asia — made up of China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan — has seen strong progress in gender equality. Historically, Confucian norms and imperial legacies have deeply influenced gender roles, ...

The Composite Map of the Ming Empire (Da Ming Hunyi Tu) reflects the political situation in AD 1389 but was likely painted much later. Original Chinese labels were later covered with Manchu on paper ...