ASEAN and Canada: Building Bridges with the Great White North
Kristina Fong Siew Leng
Canada can improve its relevance to ASEAN by focusing on areas such as food security and energy transition.

Kristina Fong Siew Leng
Canada can improve its relevance to ASEAN by focusing on areas such as food security and energy transition.
Elyssa Kaur Ludher|Paul Teng
ASEAN countries need to brace themselves for a “super” El Niño weather phenomenon.
Nuurrianti Jalli
Governments are taking action against online sexual harassment, mostly by providing relief after the discovery of harmful content. They must also prevent its creation and circulation.
Roland Rajah
The second China shock fundamentally differs from the first. Southeast Asia should strategically optimise the growth of capital imports and investment from China.
Stephen Olson
Faced with possible US forced labour tariffs, Southeast Asian countries should remember that the Trump administration’s underlying objectives are to reconstitute the reciprocal tariff regime, discourage economic linkages with China and reduce trade surpluses with the US.
Zenobia Chan
The US appears to be losing to China in the race to understand Southeast Asia. The real test, however, centres on whether a country can sustain the institutions to study the region critically.
Vinod Thomas
The vast minority of middle-income countries graduate to high-income status. Past strategies that prioritised physical capital must give way to a quality of growth approach premised on investment in human and natural capital.
Piper Campbell|Joanne Lin
Fulcrum editor William Choong talks to Piper Campbell and Joanne Lin about Southeast Asia operating amid rivalry between China and the US. Ambassador Campbell is the Inaugural Chair of the Department of Foreign Policy and Global Security, American University. She has taught at the university since January 2020. This followed a distinguished, 30-year diplomatic career. Joanne Lin is the coordinator of the ASEAN Studies Centre at ISEAS.
Nuurrianti Jalli|Maria Monica Wihardja
As new AI systems continue to develop, there are attendant risks. Southeast Asia needs to up its game by regulating such systems.
Mae Chow
The possibility of Iran targeting undersea cables in the Middle East has implications for Southeast Asia. The region should adopt strategies to maintain connectivity.