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Rich West is inundating poor East with plastic waste
China produces more than 60Mt of plastic waste every year
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Great-power spy conflict is brewing in Asia
After 10-year break, highly classified leaked Pentagon papers reveal US has not scaled back its clandestine operations
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Whoosh: a boon for Indonesia?
The Jakarta-Bandung railway cuts travel time from three hours to less than an hour
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Risk of a military conflict in South China Sea
Militarisation of the region could at any time make matters worse with either side twisting the knife
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An alliance of West-neglected economies is taking shape
Already the platform is threatening to show its muscle in the developing and emerging world
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NATO return to Asia a threat to ASEAN and continent
People in ASEAN countries remain “ambivalent” in cooperating with mini-lateral alliances such as Quad
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Inhuman sanctions war of the US
On the campaign trail, Biden promised to end his predecessor’s “maximum pressure” sanctions
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G7 neoclimatism to aggravate Global South’s climate challenges
Japan’s and US support to counter climate challenge have invariably been ambiguous
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China-EU partnership can accelerate green transition
Trade, technology barriers by either shouldn’t decelerate gains on clean energy transition across the two continents
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Is China’s development juggernaut gasping for breath?
Upward revision of the international trade growth forecast from 1.0% to 1.7% in 2023