Lynn Kuok, Lee Kuan Yew Chair in Southeast Asian Studies at Brookings Institutions, discusses how China's strategy in the South China Sea is shifting, and highlights the potential military and strateg...

How China is normalizing its control.

An analysis of South Korea's democratic resilience following the December 2024 martial law crisis and its path toward democratic renewal.

The Iran war will not transform Southeast Asia overnight. But over time, countries in the region may begin to question what the U.S. brings.

Lynn Kuok, Ankit Panda, and Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein discuss.

What Hormuz unleashed.

On June 9, Brookings will host a webinar on economic security goals in U.S. trade policy and the impact that has had on Asian counterparts.

China expected to use leverage to preserve trade truce, shape US policy on Taiwan

AEI's Cooper and Brookings' Kuok discuss implications for Washington in Asia

Published in Japan Forum (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Brookings experts break down what the war in Iran means and what's at stake internationally and domestically.

Mireya Solís sits down with Eiki Tagami of the Institute of Geoeconomics to examine Japan’s critical minerals strategy in this Q&A.

Subsea Cables Are This Century’s Hidden Battleground

Subsea Cables Are This Century’s Hidden Battleground

Brookings experts break down what to take away from the Trump administration's 2025 National Security Strategy.

How does the superpower rivalry between the US and China dictate international relations more broadly? And what does it mean for the future of trade, security and development? Lee Kuan Yew, Chair in ...

Lynn Kuok, Lee Kuan Yew Chair at the Brookings Institution, says ASEAN leaders will focus on stabilising economic relations, diversifying trade partnerships and deepening intra-regional cooperation du...

China’s salami-slicing in the South China Sea is eroding U.S. credibility.

Forcing the region to choose sides risks pushing it toward China.

Exporters in the poorest countries are grappling with cancelled orders, upended livelihoods and the impossibility of knowing what to do next.

As Donald Trump plows ahead in the early months of his chaotic second presidency, one thing remains clear: his preference for tariffs as a tool of economic diplomacy. How can Japan deal with this thre...