East Asia Explorer
Date: July 06, 2025
The East Asia Explorer tracks evolving geopolitical trends, emerging security challenges, and progress towards regional integration in East Asia. It focuses on the ASEAN grouping, domestic and foreign policy developments in countries of East Asia and Oceania, great power contestation in the region, and India’s relations with ASEAN and its member countries.
In this issue, Jayantika Rao examines the outcomes of the 46th ASEAN Summit Meeting held under the chairmanship of Malaysia on May 26, 2025, against the backdrop of shifting geopolitical dynamics.
Divya Rai analyses the Lowy Institute’s 2025 annual poll of Australian public opinion on security alliances, defence, trade, AUKUS, and climate change, highlighting a shift from long-held assumptions about the United States and China. She draws attention to declining trust in traditional partners, reflecting how Australians are reassessing their place in an increasingly unpredictable global environment.
Ambassador Biren Nanda explores the evolving, multifaceted partnership between India and Singapore, emphasising its strategic, economic, and geopolitical dimensions. He highlights that in essence, the India-Singapore relationship stands as a model of pragmatic diplomacy and future-ready collaboration. This deepening strategic bond signals not just bilateral benefits but a broader regional rebalancing in the Indo-Pacific.
To read East Asia Explorer, Vol. III, Issue 6, please see the PDF attached.
In this issue, Jayantika Rao examines the outcomes of the 46th ASEAN Summit Meeting held under the chairmanship of Malaysia on May 26, 2025, against the backdrop of shifting geopolitical dynamics.
Divya Rai analyses the Lowy Institute’s 2025 annual poll of Australian public opinion on security alliances, defence, trade, AUKUS, and climate change, highlighting a shift from long-held assumptions about the United States and China. She draws attention to declining trust in traditional partners, reflecting how Australians are reassessing their place in an increasingly unpredictable global environment.
Ambassador Biren Nanda explores the evolving, multifaceted partnership between India and Singapore, emphasising its strategic, economic, and geopolitical dimensions. He highlights that in essence, the India-Singapore relationship stands as a model of pragmatic diplomacy and future-ready collaboration. This deepening strategic bond signals not just bilateral benefits but a broader regional rebalancing in the Indo-Pacific.
To read East Asia Explorer, Vol. III, Issue 6, please see the PDF attached.
