Geopolitics

Member nations should leverage their shared history and commonalities to expand trade and investment ties

Presenting a unified front would be key for the bloc at its foreign ministers’ meeting

NUS professor Joseph Liow notes that the Manus episode reflects the wider geopolitical pressures facing S-E Asia

Safeguarding a vital alliance is likely to come at the expense of democratic credibility

Trump seems appeased at the summit, but member states must work to ensure the alliance’s continued relevance

Tackling public debt, ensuring price stability and implementing structural changes are critical

The high-tech West, processing-intensive China and the resource-rich Global South must cooperate, not decouple

The interim agreement carries more risk than buoyant financial markets are generally pricing in

Its government is now the gatekeeper to frontier models – and most compute