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Southeast Asia is one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots. The region is also among the leaders in habitat and wildlife loss.

Despite the reality of the threat posed by climate change, Australia is a significant part of the failure to adequately address it. That has growing diplomatic costs.

As climate action becomes a question of geopolitical competition, the world’s major economies look ready to finally take serious steps to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

On paper, East Asian countries are moving aggressively toward renewable energy. On the ground, however, things are more complicated.

The government of Sadyr Japarov will have an opportunity to prove itself by confronting the problems that made the October 4 elections such a disaster.

Vietnam made the best of a difficult situation in carrying out its ASEAN chairmanship amid a pandemic.

India has a very long journey on the road to self-reliance before it can expect to substantially reduce dependence on China.

Has the global narrative of democratic decline held true in the Indo-Pacific region?

Two years after a surprise opposition victory in the polls, Maldivian democracy is still tenuous.

Fiji’s long-running split along lines of racial identity is at the center of the country’s tortured politics.

With its latest power play, Pakistan’s civilian-military regime might have bitten off more than it could chew.