Asia Policy 20.3 (July 2025)
Asia Policy

Asia Policy 20.3
July 2025

July 30, 2025

This issue of Asia Policy features a roundtable on nontraditional security issues in Southeast Asia; an essay on the role for Asia’s regional trading agreements and the WTO in managing the uncertainty caused by U.S. tariffs; articles on China’s strategic objectives in the Middle East, North Korea and Russia’s de facto alliance, and Taiwan’s defense industry; and a book review roundtable on Darshana M. Baruah’s The Contest for the Indian Ocean and the Making of a New World Order.

Roundtable

Nontraditional Security in a Changing Global Order

Mely Caballero-Anthony, Jose Ma. Luis Montesclaros, Margareth Sembiring, Danielle Lynn Goh, Julius Cesar Trajano, Jeselyn, Nanthini S., Junli Lim, Alistair D. B. Cook, and Keith Paolo C. Landicho

Essay

Asia and “Reciprocal Tariffs”: Is Regionalism the Antidote?

L. Alan Winters

Article

China’s Strategic Engagement in the Middle East: Energy Security, Economic Integration, and Geopolitical Influence

Mordechai Chaziza and Carmela Lutmar

Article

North Korea’s De Facto Alliance with Russia: The Nuclear Ramifications

Hwee-rhak Park

Article

Taiwan’s Defense Industry at a Crossroads: Challenges and Opportunities

Rena Sasaki

Book Review Roundtable

Darshana M. Baruah’s The Contest for the Indian Ocean and the Making of a New World Order

Frédéric Grare, Nilanthi Samaranayake, Isabelle Saint-Mézard, Pradeep Taneja, Sanjay Chaturvedi, and Darshana M. Baruah

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