Dr Tham Siew Yean is a Visiting Senior Fellow with ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, and Professor Emeritus, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.
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ASEAN Business Entity: Integration at the Cost of Inclusion
Tham Siew Yean
The ABE initiative professes to promote regional economic integration via greater intra-ASEAN investments, but ASEAN should focus on attracting high-quality investment, enhancing industrial upgrading, and mitigating geopolitical risk.
Advancing RCEP Integration: Forging a More Resilient and Inclusive Economic Future
Tham Siew Yean
The potential of RCEP can only be unlocked when micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises, which constitute the backbone of the ASEAN economies, can navigate and utilise its provisions with ease.
Saving Malaysia’s AI Dream Amid Shifting US Tech and Trade Policies
Tham Siew Yean
Malaysia must urgently pursue AI chip supply diversification and supply chain vigilance to mitigate the detriments of potential export curbs and tariff hikes.
ASEAN’s Trade in Services with the US and China: A Hidden Casualty of Trump’s 2.0 Tariffs
Tham Siew Yean|Maria Monica Wihardja
In services trade, ASEAN has maintained a deficit with the US and a surplus with China. The Trump tariff fixation with goods has omitted services, to the detriment of all sides.
The Significance of the Malaysia-UAE Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA)
Tham Siew Yean
The agreement builds on a rapidly strengthening economic relationship, with potential benefits for the UAE’s diversification and Malaysia’s trade and investment.