ARTICLES

7 Apr 2025

Australia Rues “Extreme Strategic Loneliness”

Nick Bisley

Fulcrum editor William Choong discusses Australia’s strategic choices amid intensifying Sino-US rivalry and increased geopolitical flux with Prof Nick Bisley.

7 Apr 2025

Autonomous Driving and Southeast Asia: Will it Hit the Road?

Shi Youwei

Chinese and American firms are seeking to export their autonomous driving technologies to Southeast Asia. The signal lesson is that their data-driven models require sensitivity and adaptation to the region’s diverse markets.

EV Cars Southeast Asia Technology

2 Apr 2025

ASEAN Food Security: Climate Adaptation as Urgent as Mitigation

Paul Teng|Elyssa Kaur Ludher

To ensure Southeast Asia’s food security, mitigation or the reduction of emissions only constitutes part of the solution. Adaptation is just as important.

Climate Change Food Security Southeast Asia

12 Mar 2025

Trump’s Reciprocal Tariff Policy: Implications for Southeast Asia

Jayant Menon

The implications of the Trump administration’s reciprocal tariff policy on Southeast Asia are still unclear, as certain questions need to be answered.

Southeast Asia Tariffs Trade US

11 Mar 2025

COMAC’s C919 in Southeast Asia: Needs More than Price to Take Flight

Tang Meng Kit

China’s COMAC is touting its C919 aircraft as a cost-effective alternative to the Airbus-Boeing duopoly. Success, however, depends on overcoming significant challenges such as certification and establishing reliable maintenance networks.

China China-Southeast Asia relations Southeast Asia

7 Mar 2025

Challenges of Combating Transnational Drug Trafficking in Southeast Asia

Josiah Patrick P. Bagayas

A long-running saga of a Filipino national convicted of drug trafficking in Indonesia underscores the need to address the transnational element of law enforcement against such activities.

Drug Trade Philippine Philippine Politics Southeast Asia

3 Mar 2025

Impact of Trump 2.0 on Southeast Asia’s Energy Geopolitics

Mirza Sadaqat Huda

Trump’s rent-seeking foreign policy pertaining to energy and critical minerals will force Southeast Asian countries to do what they least desire: making a choice between China and the US.

Energy Southeast Asia US

27 Feb 2025

Southeast Asia Can Navigate Growing Fractures in Global Automotive Sector

John Lee

Southeast Asia has become another front in the ensuing technology wars between China and the US.

EV Cars Southeast Asia Technology

25 Feb 2025

Doing More for Victims of Forced Criminality in Southeast Asia

Brandon Tan Jun Wen

To combat a rising transnational scourge, the region’s governments can augment non-governmental efforts to detect, rescue and repatriate victims of increasingly sophisticated overseas ‘job’ scam operations run by cyber syndicates.

Crime Human Trafficking Scam Southeast Asia

18 Feb 2025

Trump’s Territorial Ambitions Send Tremors Beyond the Western Hemisphere

Hoang Thi Ha

US President Donald Trump's rhetoric in past weeks has sparked a chain reaction of alarm in Southeast Asia. If his words become deeds, the region's uneven but evident bedrock of trust in the US, carefully built up since World War Two's end, could slowly turn to dust.

ASEAN-US Relations Donald Trump Southeast Asia US