The first year of U.S. President Donald Trump’s foreign policy in Southeast Asia has been demonstrably mixed. On the one hand ...

In 2025, rising geopolitical tensions reshaped global technology and manufacturing, boosting Southeast Asia as a key hub for ...

Indonesia is building a new, green city in the jungle. Its future is far from certain, but new residents like living there.

This piece is part of a series of articles covering the medieval and early modern great powers of each of Asia’s regions: East Asia, Central and North Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and West Asia ...

Policymakers and scholars in the West talk about Southeast Asia as a coherent region, but it has always been divided. The region’s 700 million people speak hundreds of languages and follow different ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Over the past fifteen years, China has increasingly become the dominant military ...

This is a human-written story voiced by AI. Got feedback? Take our survey. (See our AI policy here.) Southeast Asians created the oldest known human mummies roughly 7,000 years before Egyptian mummies ...

The world's oldest evidence for purposeful human mummification comes from Southeast Asia, where people smoke-dried their ancestors' corpses 10,000 years ago. When you purchase through links on our ...

At the edge of Bali’s Pura Tanah Lot, an ancient Hindu temple that towers above the ocean atop an outcrop of rocks on the Indonesian island’s southwestern coast, a row of souvenir stalls invites ...

Thailand, Vietnam and other countries in the region face much higher tariffs on exports with Chinese-made components. But questions remain on how the U.S. defines a locally made product. By Sui-Lee ...

Southeast Asia’s premium video-on-demand landscape is heating up, with the region adding more than 1.5 million net new subscribers in Q2 2025 — nearly doubling Q1 growth — according to new data from ...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s recent visit to three Southeast Asian countries drew widespread headlines — not only for diplomatic pageantry but also for its timing. The visit came on the heels of ...