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Geopolitics

Opinion & Features

The world is in a new age of variable geometry

China's President Xi Jinping (left) and South Korea's President Lee Jae-myung (second from left) exchanging gifts at a meeting on the sidelines of the Apec summit. While Seoul has long been a security ally of Washington, it increasingly finds itself in a diplomatic balancing act with Beijing given the latter’s growing influence in Asia and beyond.
Opinion & Features

Seoul’s geopolitical tightrope walk

A screen showing the meeting between US President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping in South Korea, outside a shopping mall in Beijing on Oct 30. China is not the rare-earth juggernaut it might seem to be.
Opinion & Features
THE BROAD VIEW

China’s rare-earth own goal

Erosion of arms control, rush for new systems and loose talk on testing are all the more unsettling since Russia’s war on Ukraine has marked the return of nuclear blackmail.
Opinion & Features

The new nuclear arms race

Myanmar is yet another post-colonial nation with borders drawn up for the convenience of its erstwhile British rulers.
Opinion & Features
THINKING ALOUD

Asean can do very little about the civil war in Myanmar

The move is likely to ease worries about chip shipments that had threatened auto production in Europe and elsewhere amid a broader trade fight pitting China against the US and its allies that had roiled markets.
Telcos, Media & Tech

The ‘Chinese owner’ of Nexperia: How Zhang Xuezheng’s tech empire fell to geopolitics

As nations react to a multipolar and shifting world, Asean must step up to differentiate itself and deliver benefits to its members, says the writer.
Opinion & Features

Asean centrality is more than its summit guest list

A launch event of Chinese EV maker BYD in Argentina. China has become a major force in areas like EVs, wind and solar power, plus robotics and artificial intelligence.
Opinion & Features

China’s pivotal plenum shows long game, but can it overcome its soft-power wall?

Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Lawrence Wong (L) attended the 28th Asean-China Summit on Oct 28, 2025. The summit took place shortly after both sides signed an agreement to upgrade ACFTA 3.0.
ASEAN Business

PM Wong calls for deeper Asean-China collaboration to strengthen trust, regional stability

Trump initially threatened to cancel the meeting, their first face-to-face since the pandemic, over the new Chinese measures on critical minerals.
Opinion & Features

Apec’s economic mission splintered by geopolitics

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