New Global Order

NEW GLOBAL ORDER

A new logic of China-Asean economic integration emerges from the Middle East conflict

The global economy is moving from one driven by the gains of globalisation to one shaped by the pricing of security risks

As the EU’s first-ever standalone digital deal, the EUSDTA demonstrates a shared determination to work together amid the heightened global economic uncertainty.
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Europe and Singapore: A reliable partnership in contested times

It offers a compelling model that combines openness with resilience, innovation with trust, and ambition with responsibility

While voluntary commitments from frontier labs signal intent and set reference points for accountability, soft norms alone cannot bend behaviour towards safety, says the writer.
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AI governance: The summit stage is necessary but it isn’t sufficient

As the geostrategic environment deteriorates, we must accelerate efforts to boost international coordination and build governance infrastructure

Renewable energy has become the most cost-competitive option for new power generation in many markets.
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A new decisive moment for renewable energy

Decentralised, regionally integrated energy systems grounded in renewables offer greater predictability

The rush to ride the technology wave has imposed an added strain on the power grid because of the need for a reliable, scalable power source.
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Three challenges to South-east Asia’s technology ambitions

As the region accelerates its pursuit of high-tech growth strategies, it will confront the structural challenges of capacity, geopolitics and sustainability

The WHO’s normative functions remain indispensable for coherent global action.
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Rethinking our global health architecture in a fragmented world

The international health governance landscape is at a critical and precarious juncture

Chinese EV maker Nio's factory in Hefei. China competes not by optimising quarterly return on investment, but by building ecosystems, accelerating diffusion and accepting waste as the cost of capability.
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Resilience over returns: How China’s economic model sparks a rethink about global competition

In an era of geopolitical fragmentation, financial scale matters less than physical resilience

When clashes erupted around the Preah Vihear temple, escalation was contained not by superior firepower but by Asean mediation and recourse to international law.
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Asia’s future will be won by soft power, not force

Such power often determines how long crises last and how much economic damage they inflict

Customers at a shopping centre in Jakarta. Asean, with nearly 700 million consumers and rapidly expanding middle classes, represents one of the fastest-growing demand bases in the global economy.
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Asean+3, not the US, is now the world’s largest market

This structural shift has measurable consequences for how shocks propagate

“We actively take on the world as it is, not wait for a world we wish to be,” said Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney at the World Economic Forum in Davos last month. The logic of flexible multilateralism is straightforward: start with like-minded partners to build open and inclusive initiatives on issues where there is alignment.
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Shaping flexible multilateralism for a world in flux

An incremental approach towards cooperation is a critical strategic tool for nations