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Global Asia Magazine - September 2025

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In this issue

APEC is the latest multilateral forum to reckon with the consequences of the Trump-led assault on globalization. When leaders of the 21 member countries gather in South Korea at the end of October, top of mind will be how to forge cooperation in areas that will help maintain the hardwon relevance APEC has had for the past 33 years.
As the essays in this issue’s cover package show, there is reason for optimism, despite the current climate of uncertainty. Possible areas for continued co-operation and collective action include the digital economy, AI, innovation, green and sustainable development, and demographic challenges. Equally important, the latest APEC summit in South Korea will provide a chance for leaders to meet. As Global Asia was going to press, it appeared that Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping might hold their first in-person meeting since Trump returned to the presidency.
Elsewhere, our In Focus section examines the latest upheaval in Thailand’s long history of political turmoil. Yet another member of the vaunted Shinawatra clan — which has dominated Thai politics for more than 20 years — has been ousted, this time on the heels of a violent border clash with Cambodia. The saga illustrates not only the complex and seemingly intractable obstacles to democracy in Southeast Asia’ second- largest economy, but also the ongoing tensions between Thailand and Cambodia.
In our Features section, we explore the increasingly aggressive maritime challenge that China is posing to Japan and why Tokyo must now get tough with Beijing or risk its own security; how China is joining the growing number of countries seeking to exploit the economic and strategic opportunities of the Arctic; how the rivalry between China and the US is reshaping global geopolitics; and how Trump’s overtures to Pakistan are sending a strong signal to Moscow and Beijing, as well as India.
As always, our Book Review section examines some of the most engaging recent books on Asia.

Global Asia Magazine Description:

Publisher: East-Asia-Foundation

Category: Politics

Language: English

Frequency: Quarterly

Global Asia is a quarterly publication of the East Asia Foundation. The foundation, established in Seoul in January 2005, strives to promote peace, prosperity, security and sustainability in East Asia by creating an open and creative forum for the exchange of ideas on regional co-operation and integration, among other goals.

The mission we have set for ourselves with Global Asia is both bold and urgent: It is to provide a compelling, serious, and responsible forum for distinguished thinkers, policymakers, political leaders and business people to debate the most important issues in Asia today.

Global Asia is not a journal with a fixed point of view, or a particular agenda. Our aim is to give voice to the global dimension of what is happening in Asia. In our pages and on our web site, we aim for Asia to speak to the world, and the world to Asia. That is important at a time when this region is playing an ever greater role in world affairs.

There are other fine publications on international affairs. What sets us apart is our focus: Asia. We believe that the world is moving into “the Age of Asia,” to borrow a phrase from one of the articles in the inaugural issue of Global Asia in September 2006. This transformation is not going to occur overnight, but it has already begun.

The region’s dynamic economic growth, stable and accountable political systems, maturing democracies, and evolving sense of community are giving Asia greater weight in the world. These developments will have enormous implications for governments, businesses, societies and individuals across the globe. How that transformation is viewed, and shaped, from within Asia and how it is perceived outside Asia is an essential part of the story we have to tell.

The forces of globalization are having a profound impact throughout the world. And they are being influenced and channeled in different ways in different parts of the world. Ours is the story of Asia’s experience with globalization, and the ideas and debates influencing it. In pursuing our mission, we aim to play a part, however modest, in helping to shape the future of Asia.