ASEAN Rules-Based Order Tested in Manila
ASEAN rules-based order faces a pivotal test in Manila as delegates debate a bloc-wide protest tool against China’s water-cannon tactics. Read the intel drop.
The Indo-Pacific Split: Why ASEAN’s Alignment Crisis Is Unfolding Faster Than Expected
The Indo-Pacific alignment crisis threatens ASEAN’s future. Explore how competing empires and internal fractures force urgent institutional reinvention.
Vietnam Free Trade Push Accelerates to Offset U.S. Tariffs Impact
Vietnam free trade push ramps up new FTAs to offset looming U.S. tariffs, reshape ASEAN trade dynamics, and secure export-led growth.
US–China Tariff Pause Eases ASEAN Trade Disruption
The US–China tariff pause suspends duties for 90 days on $600 billion in goods, stabilizing ASEAN supply chains and boosting regional exporters.
What Remains When We Forget: Embracing Our Fractured Identity
In the quiet hours before dawn, I often find myself reaching back—through the whisper of bamboo leaves, the scent of incense drifting across courtyard walls—to touch moments I thought I had lost forever. Yet memory has its own logic, and when I forget, it’s not simply a loss; it’s a transformation. The residue of what…
Digital Sovereignty in Southeast Asia: Between Opportunity and Occupation
As Southeast Asia digitizes, the battle for digital sovereignty intensifies. This essay examines China’s digital entrenchment, U.S. countermeasures, and ASEAN’s fragile autonomy in the infrastructure wars.
Philippines–China Naval Standoff Escalates Near Scarborough Shoal
Philippines China Naval Standoff – Geo Pulse | Strategic Dispatches from Southeast Asia Key Takeaways Philippines China Naval Standoff: The 5 May Incident At 07 : 48 local time, PS-35 was escorting a fisheries patrol near Bajo de Masinloc when PLAN frigate 554 darted 800 m across her bow. A sister ship shadowed within 700…
Malaysia Joint Military Exercise Johor Signals Regional Defense Shift
Strategic Dispatches from Southeast Asia Malaysia Joint Military Exercise Johor: Special Forces and Royal Troops Mobilized From May 1 to May 13, 2025, Malaysia’s elite 21st Special Forces Group is conducting Exercise Thunderstorm Series 1/2025 in joint operations with the Johor Military Force (JMF) — a historic, tightly coordinated security drill across Johor’s coastal zones…
Game-Changing Clampdown: Vietnam National Data Law 2025
Vietnam enacts a sweeping digital sovereignty law, introducing a National Data Centre and strict data localization controls.
The Inherited Distance: Diaspora Trauma Inheritance and the Blueprint of Emotion
We inherit more than names — we inherit silence, survival instincts, and emotional wounds we never witnessed. This essay explores diaspora trauma inheritance and how the unspoken grief of exile quietly shapes our identity, generation after generation.
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