ASEAN has always been about making things work to attract foreign investment. But this defining model is confronting an increasingly disruptive external and internal landscape that could upend its continued success. After enjoying favorable economic tailwinds for several decades, Southeast Asia must demonstrate that it is able to navigate climate and geopolitical headwinds.

The debates surrounding the New Economic Policy tend to be polarising and often reach a stalemate; however, a more constructive engagement is possible through re-appreciating the NEP’s strengths and examining its weaknesses/omissions, grappling with its policy discourses as well as with its popular but misguided perspectives. This paper suggests that by doing all these, we can ultimately recraft the NEP to forge a cohesive and inclusive Malaysian society.

On October 30, the US and the EU announced a deal that replaces Trump-era US tariffs on EU steel and aluminum under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 with a quota system.

The existential threat of rising carbon emissions and climate change has prompted an historic shift in investment away from petrol-burning cars to the electric vehicle (EV). Along with that shift, the global EV sector has become a pawn in a larger geopolitical competition and is at the nexus of many techno-nationalist issues.