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Four worrying trends cast a cloud over Southeast Asia in the new year, but there may be a silver lining in Myanmar's re-entry into the international community.
Waste in China’s infrastructure investment highlights the fact that China’s development model is unable to keep GDP growth levels high without explosive debt growth.
President Ma faces a full agenda as he prepares to launch his second four-year term on May 20, with high costs of housing and education, stagnant incomes, and changing lifestyles threatening Taiwan's economic growth.
China's economic imbalances are the result of urbanization and migration, not financial policy, and expanding residence rights for migrants would do more to boost consumption than fiddling with interest rates.
Global trade imbalances would moderate and China’s growth would be more robust if its citizens were less frugal.
As Taiwan's elections approach, Beijing and Washington are quietly hoping for the re-election of Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou and the maintenance of the status quo in cross-strait relations.
As China’s leaders seek to preserve stability in 2012, they face a host of challenges, including reduced economic flexibility, increasing social, unrest, widening income disparities, and escalating external tensions.
The death of North Korean dictator Kim Jung Il increases the likelihood that the stress on the multiple fault lines in Korean society will reach the point of breaking. Secret talks with China to plan for contingencies may be needed now more than ever.
Portrayals of the Obama administration's return to Asia as an effort to contain China exaggerate competition between Washington and Beijing. As the 2012 presidential election draws near, U.S. officials must adopt a prudent approach to China in the face of mounting anti-China rhetoric.
There is an increasingly conducive environment for China to develop a more flexible exchange rate system, where the prospect of a decline in the value of the renminbi is the same as of an increase.