Japan is shifting towards an active fiscal doctrine that treats public–private investment as a driver of growth, resilience and future tax capacity. In a consequential test of this approach, its Green ...

China's rise as the world's leading electric vehicle producer is not the product of a unified interventionist state but of competitive interactions among rival central ministries, development-oriented ...

China’s remarkable rise in electric vehicles is often attributed to coordinated state-led industrial policy, but its success depended crucially on competition and experimentation among central ...

Japan’s US$10 billion POWERR Asia initiative, announced in April 2026 to strengthen Southeast Asian energy resilience amid the Strait of Hormuz conflict, addresses immediate fossil fuel supply chain ...

Southeast Asian defence deals increasingly promise local assembly, technology transfer and industrial participation, but headline local content figures can obscure whether countries actually develop ...

Norway’s cancellation of the Naval Strike Missile deal for Malaysia’s littoral combat vessel program, despite Kuala Lumpur having already paid 95 per cent of the contract, has raised doubts about the ...

The new government’s budget is an ambitious response to its first annual budget since the 2025 Gen Z protests. Yet its ambition is accompanied by a targeted reform agenda aimed at overcoming the ...

China is making a strategic bet on renewable hydrogen as a way to carry clean electricity into the sectors electrification struggles to reach, such as steel, chemicals and long-distance transport. But ...

Xiao Ma is an associate professor of political science at the School of Government at Peking University. His research focuses on comparative political institutions, politics of development and Chinese ...

Shiro Armstrong is Professor of Economics and Director of International Partnerships at the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University. He is Director of the ...

Dr Anil Sigdel is Lecturer at the University of Vienna, Austria. He is the author of the book India in the Era of China's Belt and Road Initiative: How Modi Responds to Xi by Rowman and Littlefield, ...

Dr Phan Le is Research Officer at the Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australia. Phan earned his PhD in Economics from the Australian National University. His areas of expertise ...