More: AsiaPacific
Strengthening resilience and raising climate ambition key for Asia-Pacific countries at COP26
A person in the Asia-Pacific region is four times more at risk of natural hazards than a person in Africa and sixteen times more...
Climate change increasing threats in southwest Pacific
From rising sea temperatures, to deadly and devastating storms and floods, climate change is increasing threats in the southwest Pacific, the World Meteorological Organization...
Is Asia and the Pacific ready for the global climate stage?
As the leaders of Asia and the Pacific prepare to head to Glasgow for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties...
Is China in a quandary over Quad and the AUKUS?
China has identified a major challenge to its dream of a China-centric Asia Pacific, in the face of Quad. Quad’s unstated priority of countering...
UNCTAD Report: Revisiting Old Issues in Managing Cross-Border Data Flows
Today, information space has become a field of confrontation involving major digital platforms, governments, societies and individual users. Stories featuring latest cyberattacks or state-sponsored...
How The West Subdue Us: An Approach of Colonial and Development Discourse
Talking about development and colonial discourse, I am reminded the story of John Perkins in his book "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man". This...
Resilience in a riskier world
Over the past two decades, the Asia-Pacific region has made remarkable progress in managing disaster risk. But countries can never let down their guard....
As Exercise Malabar turns 25, the Quad edge makes it sharper today
The 2021 Malabar naval exercise marks the second consecutive year in which the navies of all the Quad countries are coming together. The annual...
U.S. Foreign Policy under Obama: The Case of the Asia-Pacific Region
The foreign policy of the United States has changed dramatically with the accession of Barack Obama to the presidency in 2008, especially with regard...
ADB Calls for Just, Equitable Transition Toward Net Zero in Asia and Pacific
Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Masatsugu Asakawa today called for countries in Asia and the Pacific to take bold action to address climate change...