Geopolitical tensions and authoritarian governance challenge Beijing’s efforts to engage the new generation of the Chinese diaspora.

Sheng Ding is Professor of Political Science at Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include Chinese diaspora, comparative immigration policies and international relations ...

A novel Philippine Commission on Elections resolution targeting discriminatory campaign behaviour is an important step in ...

Southeast Asia now finds itself caught in a middle-democracy trap where development sidelines democratic progress ...

Without addressing ingrained issues, elections risk becoming flashpoints in the region’s ongoing political struggle.

Thailand's National Screening Mechanism has protected just seven refugees in 18 months but generated significant ...

Kate Coddington is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography and Planning at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Her major research focus is on the experiences of people ...

Samoa’s first female Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata’afa faces entrenched patriarchal forces as she fights for re-election.

Associate Professor Sonia Palmieri is Head of the Department of Pacific Affairs, Coral Bell School of Asia and Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University.

Caught between the United States and China, Vietnam and Cambodia choose economic pragmatism over political frictions.

Australia has to face the possibility that the United States under Trump is part of the problem rather than the solution to ...

Xi Jinping's Southeast Asian tour exploited US tariff threats to promote nationalist messaging, positioning China as a ...