Trump hates US trade deficits, loves US tariffs and is mostly indifferent, if not hostile, toward multilateral arrangements including ASEAN.

The first bilateral meeting of the Trump administration was with India after PM's special envoy Jaishankar was accorded top protocol at the Trump inaugural.

Over five years ago, I published a set of novel arguments on the rapidly approaching renegotiations of the Compacts of Free ...

Oil futures fell in Asia after Trump said he wants crude prices to be lower. Speaking at Davos, Trump said he will ask Saudi Arabia and OPEC to bring down the cost of oil, reviving a tactic to talk ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba pledges to build a cross-party consensus through parliamentary debate as his minority ...

"Disrespectful", "insulting", and "ill-informed." Donald Trump's threats aimed at strong-arming Moscow into ending its war in Ukraine have been badly received by some politicians and nationalists in ...

As Trump reruns to the White House, the next four years will be both exciting and tempestuous for the business world and for international relations, argues LABARAN MAKU ...

What started as minor supplier adjustments in response to the US–China trade conflict has evolved into comprehensive strategies of diversification and reshoring of critical inputs.

In response to a US State Department statement claiming new US Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussing Beijing's "dangerous and destabilizing actions in the South China Sea" with his Philippines ...

Weeks before his return to the White House, US President-elect Donald Trump issued a pointed warning to the Brics countries. "Go find another sucker," he wrote on his social media platform, Truth ...

Although hardly a surprise, President Trump’s executive decision to exit the international effort to halt global heating for ...

It is no surprise that a top member of the Trump administration, like Hegseth, faces concerns, as there have been worries that the boss himself may not be keen on Southeast Asia.