In the decades immediately ahead, East Asia will experience perhaps the modern world’s most dramatic demographic shift. All of the region’s main states—China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan—are about ...

The transformation of several East Asian countries from developing, agrarian economies to highly developed, industrialized economies is one of the great success stories of the 20th century. According ...

Strangely enough, the literature on “state capacity” – including that on industrial policy and on the entrepreneurial state – says very little about the people who staff the higher ranks of the state.

The Trump tariff shock has profoundly disrupted East Asia’s economic landscape, presenting mounting challenges for the region’s export-driven economies. The unjustified tariffs imposed on ASEAN, China ...

Few parts of the global economy hold more obvious promise than South-East Asia. Multinational firms hoping to move manufacturing away from China are racing to establish supply chains in the region.

The Composite Map of the Ming Empire (Da Ming Hunyi Tu) reflects the political situation in AD 1389 but was likely painted much later. Original Chinese labels were later covered with Manchu on paper ...

Eight years ago Barack Obama spent several days in the twilight of his presidency in Laos. He bought a coconut from a roadside stall, visited holy sites, then sat through two days of stultifying ...