Tag: Asia

Asia – What does the Oxford Malaria vaccine mean for Asia? (J Kevin Baird, East Asia Forum)

The groundwork for the miraculously rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines actually began a few decades ago with basic research on molecular subunit vaccine technologies....

Indian Ocean/Asia – The Indian Ocean and the Asia Chessboard (Michael Jonathan Green, Darshana Baruah, CSIS)

This week, Mike is joined by Darshana Baruah, associate fellow with the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to discuss...

USA/Japan/Asia – Can the US–Japan Climate Partnership lead decarbonisation in Asia? (East Asia Forum)

Satoshi Kurokawa, Waseda University Can the US–Japan Climate Partnership lead decarbonisation in Asia? | East Asia Forum

Asia/Digital/Post Pandemic Recovery – How big tech can help start-ups fuel Asia’s post-pandemic recovery (WEF)

Ahmed Mazhari COVID-19 has wreaked global economic damage and further exposed the digital divide. With its established digital ecosystem, Asia is well positioned to...

Asia – Tackling Asia’s Plastic Pollution (Project-Syndicate)

JED ALEGADO, CLEMENS KUNZE, KEVIN LI Community-based organizations and grassroots-led initiatives across Asia are addressing the growing threat of plastics pollution. Governments must now enact and properly...

Pandemic/Asia/Africa – How Asia and Africa are finding innovative ways to plug the COVID-19 health gaps (WEF)

Image: Thomson Reuters Foundation/Handout by Sehat Kahani Emma Batha Innovative solutions have been developed across Africa and Asia to deal with the increasing demand for...

Asia – The Great Game 2.0 in Asia: Stakes go up (ORF)

YURI M YARMOLINSKY Even a cursory glance at world events leaves no doubt that Asia remains high on the international agenda. Following the signing...

Tackling climate risk in Asia through AMRO and the NGFS (East Asia Forum)

Giridharan Ramasubramanian, ANU Climate change will be a source of significant physical and socioeconomic risk in Asia. To manage the transition to a new climate reality, countries...

Asia – Asia needs to push back against the lurch to self-reliance (East Asia Forum)

Editorial Board, ANU In a world where confrontational geopolitics and the concentration of production of crucial industrial components like semiconductors and medical supplies in particular...

USA/Asia – Clear skies over Asia’s new foreign investment landscape (East Asia Forum)

David Dollar, Brookings Institution Compounding the fallout of the US–China trade war, the global pandemic and recession have caused considerable speculation on the future of...

Asia/Global Trade – Can Asia reinvent global trade? (East Asia Forum)

Author: Bilahari Kausikan, NUS Middle East Institute Let’s not believe our own propaganda. Asia reinventing global trade is a superficially attractive but problematic proposition. It...

Asia – Tackling housing unaffordability in post-COVID-19 Asia (East Asia Forum)

Matthias Helble, ADB and Kwan Ok Lee, NUS As the COVID-19 pandemic accelerates digitisation and a shift to remote work, it has some anticipating a...

Asia – Managing digital trade in Asia (East Asia Forum)

Deborah Elms, Asian Trade Centre For years, digitally enabled trade has grown without significant regulatory oversight. Firms started by delivering goods ordered online and then...

Asia – Geopolitics drives vaccine access in Asia (East Asia Forum)

David P Fidler, CFR From the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccines were seen as critical to countering it. The World Health Organization (WHO) and...

USA/Asia – Realistic ambitions for US alliance system in Asia (East Asia Forum)

Kori Schake, AEI US allies in Asia have many and often conflicting desires. They want the commercial freedom to benefit from Chinese investment, markets and...

(Asia) The future of digital currencies will be determined in Asia (East Asia Forum)

Editorial Board, ANU Next time you’re eating a pizza, spare a thought for Laszlo Hanyecz. Back in 2010, the Florida resident bought two pizzas for about US$20....