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Nuno Canas Mendes is Associate Professor at the Institute of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lisbon, and President of Instituto do Oriente (Portuguese Institute of Asian Studies).

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ASEAN must pursue coordinated long-term strategies to leverage artificial intelligence’s potential benefits for food security ...

Mae Chow is a Researcher at the Centre on Asia and Globalisation (CAG) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. Her research interests include the US–China ...

Vietnam’s political reforms may be inadvertently steering the country towards federalism under one-party rule.

In October 2024, the Committee urged Japan to revise its Imperial House Law to allow female succession. The current law, ...

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Indonesia must safeguard its maritime security through ‘partial multialignment’ — maintaining economic ties with China while ...