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An eventful 2020, which saw Cambodia seeking to benefit from both the US and China's activities in Southeast Asia, signals difficulty in the coming year. Pou Sothirak asks, how does Cambodia avoid putting all its eggs in one basket and instead create more balanced engagement with the world's two most powerful states?
As tensions rise between China and the Quad nations, ASEAN has the ability to leverage its centrality and encourage peaceful co-operation in the region, writes regional expert Le Trung Kien.
Australia’s China problem—official contacts frozen and many of our exports under siege—is now gaining attention far beyond our shores. As former Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans AC writes, much of the world, given stark evidence of the economic havoc that China’s displeasure can wreak, and of the ugly depths to which its “wolf warrior diplomacy” can descend, is trying to understand both how we fell into this hole, and whether we can climb out of it with our dignity intact.
China continues to steadily erode the political and legal rights which have underpinned Hong Kong’s distinct way of life. Professor Sonny Lo writes it is time for the democracy movement to rethink its strategy.
The Chinese fintech conglomerate Ant Group, known for its digital payments and other online financial services, has just been stopped in its tracks, after Chinese regulators suspended its simultaneous public listing, originally scheduled for November 5, on the Hong Kong and Shanghai Stock Exchanges. Shang-Jin Wei, a former chief economist at the Asian Development Bank, argues that expansion of such Chinese companies hinge on geopolitical dynamics beyond their control.