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Output of Bohai Sea oil field exceeds 30m tons in 2021, largest in nation (Global Times)

The annual crude oil output of China's Bohai Sea oil field reached 30.132 million tons in 2021, accounting for one-seventh of the country's overall...

Will RCEP make Asia ‘center of gravity’ for global commerce? (Wen Sheng, Global Times)

Everyone knows free trade enhances productivity and creates wealth. With the 15-member RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership) coming into force at the beginning of...

Koreas: A tale of two Olympics (Khang Vu, The Interpreter)

The presidency of South Korea’s Moon Jae-in will be bookended by Winter Olympics – one defined by hope, the other despair. North Korea has confirmed it...

Indian Ocean step-up (David Brewster, The Interpreter)

Like Australia in the Pacific, India has been pursuing its own Indian Ocean island step-up, largely driven by concerns about China’s growing influence in...

Kazakhstan crisis could prove costly for Putin (Amin Saikal, The Strategist)

The nationwide public unrest in oil-rich and mineral-endowed Kazakhstan, triggered by a hike in fuel prices, has its roots in deeper governance problems and...

Germany ramps up Indo-Pacific engagement (Vanessa Geidel, The Strategist)

After 16 years of Angela Merkel’s leadership, a tight race on election night and almost two months of coalition negotiations in Germany, the Social...

Huge uncertainties still surround US trade policy (East Asia Forum)

Donald Trump’s presidency signalled a decisive US retreat from free and open trade and leadership of the multilateral trading system that had fostered unprecedented...

Security not economics is likely to drive US trade engagement in Asia (Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Megan Hogan, East Asia Forum)

It was a year of transition for US trade policy in 2021. The Trump administration’s trade representative Robert Lighthizer was replaced by Katherine Tai,...

Boosting consumption to lift growth in India (Nilanjan Ghosh and Soumya Bhowmick, East Asia Forum)

The Indian economy is yet again at a crossroads. The country’s second wave of COVID-19 had repercussions across the economy and on people’s personal lives and...

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