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Asia’s different routes to AI advantage and what Australia must learn image

Asia’s different routes to AI advantage and what Australia must learn

9 August 2026

The future of AI in Asia is not a national race. Partnerships will be essential. Australia’s task, writes Vikas Kumar, is to determine where it can become indispensable, utilising strengths in energy, minerals, research, trusted institutions and sector expertise.

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Diplomacy

Asia (general)

The triumph of India’s cockroaches image

The triumph of India’s cockroaches

6 August 2026

It started with a judge’s slur and ballooned into a mass popular movement. Shashi Tharoor writes India’s young “cockroaches” have reminded their leaders that the political establishment, no matter how powerful, cannot ignore the collective will of the public indefinitely.

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Diplomacy

India

Vietnam’s institutional reforms and anti-corruption: still much to be done image

Vietnam’s institutional reforms and anti-corruption: still much to be done

4 August 2026

Vietnam has made significant reforms to combat corruption in recent years with the aim of strengthening the economy. But writes Hai Hong Nguyen cannot attain its economic and governance goals without independent journalism and a functioning civil society.

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Diplomacy

Vietnam

The Long Game: Why politics, not evidence alone, drives welfare reform in Indonesia image

The Long Game: Why politics, not evidence alone, drives welfare reform in Indonesia

3 August 2026

Indonesia's 24 year journey from emergency rice handouts to digital cash transfers shows that welfare reform succeeds not through evidence alone, but by knowing when politics makes it possible, writes Widyana Perdhani.

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Diplomacy

Indonesia