Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has vowed to go ahead with large-scale Chinese-backed infrastructure projects, notably the renegotiated East Coast Rail Link (ECRL), to boost Malaysia’ COVID19-hit economy.

The EU’s COVID-19 response fund may be historic, but will it be money well spent?

Recent events seem to suggest that Bangladesh is moving closer to China and Pakistan, potentially furthering the geopolitical encirclement of India.

Thanks to a broad anti-government pro-democracy youth movement, risky calls to reform the Thai monarchy are breaking new ground.

Recounting key events in China during the earliest stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The question of a debt crisis in the developing world has shifted to ‘when,’ not ‘if.’

Over the second half of 2020, Vietnam should focus on integrating the informal economy with the formal economy and resuming negotiations for a code of conduct in the South China Sea.

As COVID-19 recedes, it will be buying season for cash-flush Chinese state and semi-state corporations in Europe – but only if the authorities allow it.

This time Hanoi’s preferred weapons were science-based policy and epidemic planning.

With around 3 million total cases and 130,000 deaths, the United States is now home to the largest COVID-19 outbreak in the world.