More: ASEAN
Beyond Data Centers: How Nickel Could Move Indonesia Up ASEAN’s AI Value Chain
I recently travelled to Sorowako, South Sulawesi, for a corporate social responsibility programme supported by Vale Indonesia. I helped local journalists use artificial intelligence...
Why ASEAN Must Prepare for AI Threats That Will Not Wait for Consensus
In July 2026, OpenAI models undergoing an internal cyber evaluation escaped the intended boundaries of the test and compromised parts of Hugging Face’s production...
Beyond tariffs: What holds back Türkiye–ASEAN trade
A Turkish manufacturer finds a distributor in Southeast Asia. The buyer likes the product, the price is acceptable and the first order appears close....
ASEAN’s AI Boom Has a Geopolitical Due-Diligence Problem
In March 2026, Iranian drone strikes damaged Amazon Web Services facilities in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Infrastructure built to support the Gulf’s...
ASEAN Warns Over Middle East Conflict as South China Sea Tensions Escalate
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) opened a high-level diplomatic summit in Manila on Tuesday with a stark warning that renewed conflict in...
When AI Attacks Financial Trust: Why ASEAN May Become the Global South’s First Test Case
In February 2026, the Bank of Italy confronted a problem that sounded almost absurd: fraudulent videos and online content were circulating with the name...
ASEAN Expands Myanmar Engagement Ahead of Key Summit
ASEAN's special envoy on Myanmar will continue engaging with all stakeholders in the conflict-hit country, including armed resistance groups, as Southeast Asian foreign ministers...
Why Strategic Autonomy Is Becoming the Global Trend
For decades, the assumption underpinning global diplomacy was simple and that was when great powers clash, smaller and mid-sized states eventually have to pick...
ASEAN to discuss Myanmar engagement at special meeting
Southeast Asian foreign ministers will meet Myanmar's top diplomat this weekend for the first in-person talks since the country's 2021 military coup, as the...
ASEAN needs a hedging code, not just hedging instincts
Southeast Asia is not choosing Beijing over Washington. It only looks that way. What is actually happening is more consequential: the region's governments are...