Danifansen Simanjuntak is a senior planner at the Ministry of Planning (BAPPENAS), Indonesia and the founder of the Indonesia-China Policy Society at Tsinghua University.

There are legitimate security concerns in the CHT. Its location along two international frontiers makes border management ...

Beijing announced its proposed Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law (ACBCL) in August following a blistering exposé by a US journalism consortium on the overseas lending practices of the Industrial and ...

Israel’s political system is divided over Netanyahu but it is much less divided over the proposition that Israel must retain ...

This is more than Japanese diplomacy. It reflects a wider anxiety among America’s Asian partners: the risk is not just that Washington and Beijing may confront each other, but that they may eventually ...

President Prabowo has criticized traditional Indonesian Chinese oligarchs but is he just setting up a new oligarchy?

If someone looks seriously into the existing bilateral ties between Bangladesh and India, the history of this irritation can be traced to politics. … As the largest democracy on earth sets to host the ...

The Philippines is pushing back against what it sees as a creeping Chinese campaign to rewrite the history of Batanes, a string of islands and the country’s northern most province, with the aim of one ...

Last August, Asia Sentinel marked its 20th anniversary of independent reporting in the region. We would like to thank all our readers who have been with us throughout the years and supported our work.

South Asia’s new governments have discovered that overthrowing an old political order is easier than escaping the economic constraints that helped destroy it in the first place. In less than two years ...

Foreign investment from countries including China is driving the rapid growth of Uzbekistan’s economy, but the Central Asian country does not intend to be a doormat for the US and China to fight over ...