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{"title":"Beyond Economics: Political Identity and the Future of Cross-Strait Relations","authors":"Ignacio Vicuña Betancourt,&nbsp;Juan Pablo Sims,&nbsp;Brice Tseen Fu Lee,&nbsp;Yun-Tso Lee","doi":"10.1111/aspp.70027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.70027","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper explores the intricate dynamics of cross-Strait relations between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Taiwan, focusing on the interplay of political cooperation, national identity, and economic interdependence in the unification process. Through content analysis and Key Word in Context (KWIC) methodologies, it examines political discourse from Taiwan's presidential speeches (1996–2023), China's White Papers (1993, 2000, and 2022), and Chinese Communist Party National Congress Reports (1997–2022). The findings reveal that although economic interdependence stabilizes cross-Strait relations, it cannot resolve the challenges of conflicting identities and limited political cooperation. Taiwan's growing emphasis on autonomy contrasts with China's sovereignty claims and unification strategies, complicated further by US geopolitical influence. The study concludes that without a shared political and identity framework, economic ties alone cannot achieve unification, challenging integration theories such as neofunctionalism. This highlights identity and cooperation as critical obstacles in cross-Strait relations.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":"17 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144515101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Decolonizing Environmental Politics: Relationality and Cosmopraxis in the Sundarbans Region, Bangladesh","authors":"Abhishek Choudhary","doi":"10.1111/aspp.70021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.70021","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The paper seeks to bridge the gap between environmental policy formulation and actual practices of the Sundarbans region in Bangladesh through a metatheoretical intervention within a decolonial framework. <i>Ontologically</i>, it foregrounds relationality and examines the implication of such ontological position. <i>Epistemologically</i>, the paper advocates standpoint epistemologies. With an effort to decolonize environmental governance, the paper specifically focusses on the epistemic erasures of traditional resource users in the Sundarbans. It engages with the ways in which specific communities engage with the mangrove forest ecosystem. <i>Methodologically</i>, the paper borrows the framework of Hybrid/Plural Climate Studies and Cosmopraxis. Cosmopraxis has the potential of countering epistemic erasures done by modernity and colonization of the lifeworld. <i>Empirically</i>, the paper examines the case of select communities in the Sundarbans, Bangladesh where their reciprocal and relational engagement with the nature goes beyond spirituality and shows an implicit presence of cosmopraxis.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":"17 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144515104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Private Revolutions: Four Women Face China's New Social Order, By \u0000 , Yuan Yang, Norfolk, US: Viking, 2024. 304 pp. $30. ISBN: 978-0-593-49390-8.","authors":"Doris Anderson","doi":"10.1111/aspp.70030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.70030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":"17 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144515098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Emerging Applications and Implications of Artificial Intelligence in North Korea","authors":"Andrew Shin","doi":"10.1111/aspp.70026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.70026","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly through deep learning, is reshaping national security and governance worldwide. Even resource-constrained states like North Korea are leveraging these technologies to enhance control and project influence. This paper examines North Korea's adoption of AI, highlighting how deep learning has enabled more direct and impactful applications than earlier approaches. While North Korea's AI research dates back to the 1990s, recent developments have empowered the regime to use AI for strategic purposes such as counterfeit identity generation and facial recognition-based surveillance. The paper explores the security risks posed by these applications, the regime's motivations, and the limitations it faces due to restricted access to hardware and data. It also considers potential international responses to mitigate these threats. By focusing on North Korea, this analysis contributes to broader discussions on the role of AI in authoritarian resilience and the shifting landscape of global security.</p>","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":"17 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aspp.70026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144515094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Enhancing Cooperation Between MERCOSUR and China for Innovation","authors":"Thiebaut Renata","doi":"10.1111/aspp.70032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.70032","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Since the implementation of the “Made in China 2025” and “Internet Plus” initiative, China's central government has focused on transforming the economy into one driven by innovation. However, amid ongoing geopolitical tensions—particularly the US trade war—countries now must accelerate their efforts to diversify its international partnerships, reduce dependency on the American market, and build resilient cooperation frameworks. This paper discusses the importance of China's foreign affairs approach to diminish the reliance on trade and infrastructure building and increase cooperation on science and technology particularly in the MERCOSUR context. Finally, this paper aims to propose enhanced cooperation between China and MERCOSUR members through a bilateral agreement that focuses on the Digital Economy through the exploration of joint efforts for trade investments and strategy exchange framework in technology and sciences-related topics in selected industries.</p>","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":"17 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aspp.70032","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144515102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evolving Social Movement Strategies Against Green Grabbing: The Rempang Eco-City Case in Indonesia","authors":"Badrudin Kurniawan","doi":"10.1111/aspp.70033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.70033","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Green grabbing has detrimental impacts on local communities. These impacts are potentially exacerbated when they resist the appropriation of resources. Thus, this study delves into the transformation of resistance strategies in the case of the Rempang Eco-City project in Indonesia to defend their land and reduce the risks they may face. Specifically, it explores the shift from violent to nonviolent strategies among local protesters, highlighting the roles of women's participation, NGO support, and the negative consequences of physical confrontation. Despite this shift, state coercion persists, posing a serious threat to the sustainability of nonviolent resistance.</p>","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":"17 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aspp.70033","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144515095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: An Offensive Realist Reconsideration of Philippine Grand Strategy","authors":"Jomari Jesus G. Tan","doi":"10.1111/aspp.70028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.70028","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In regions riddled with heightened security tensions from great power competition like Southeast Asia, why do states like the Philippines defy conventional rationality and hedge against their treaty ally? This paper seeks to answer this gap in the literature by arguing for a new definition of hedging that covers contemporary cases. Moreover, this paper proposes the theory of Offensive Hedging, a legitimate form of middle power grand strategy that weaponizes limited alignment to accrue relative gains from great power competition. These arguments shall be supported analyzing Sino–Philippine partnerships through quarterly reports, declassified documents, and official diplomatic rhetoric and compare this alongside Sino-Philippine tensions in the South China Sea (2016–2024). Finally, this paper shall briefly argue for the generalizability of Offensive Hedging by analyzing Vietnam's grand strategy, setting the foundation for future research using this lens.</p>","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":"17 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aspp.70028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144515097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Toward an ASEAN Strategic Narrative: Community, Agency, Inclusivity","authors":"Anthony Milner","doi":"10.1111/aspp.70029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.70029","url":null,"abstract":"<p>At the present time there is a growing interest in strategic narratives. The United States and China, not surprisingly, receive most attention. In an increasingly multi-polar world, however, it is critical to consider the strategic narratives of India, Japan, and Southeast Asia. Significant work has already been focused on individual Southeast Asian states—and some also on ASEAN as a grouping. The present essay seeks to tell the ASEAN story in a manner that helps to formulate a succinct strategic narrative. It presents ASEAN historically in the framework of “Asia” regionalism—stressing the competition with “Pacific” regionalism. It then highlights ASEAN's ambitious region building—first in the “Southeast Asia” sphere and then in the wider “East Asia.” At a third, even broader level ASEAN seeks to contribute to an “Indo-Pacific” order—giving prominence to certain longstanding principles, such as inclusivity, non-intervention and the search for consensus.</p>","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":"17 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aspp.70029","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144515103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"It's Way Too Complicated! Trump 2.0 and Southeast Asia","authors":"Aries A. Arugay","doi":"10.1111/aspp.70020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.70020","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The return of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States in 2025 has heightened strategic calculations across Southeast Asia. His approach to international relations—marked by a transactional logic, personalistic leadership style, and a general disdain for the rules-based international order (RBIO)—presents both immediate and long-term challenges to the region's security architecture, economic dynamism and diplomatic engagements. Unlike his predecessors that sought to embed Southeast Asia within a broader Indo-Pacific strategy premised on “ironclad commitment” or deeper engagement based on mutual interests, the Trump administration has prioritized short-term reciprocity over enduring relationships. This shift underscores the region's growing imperative to pursue strategic autonomy, recalibrate traditional alignments, and invest in regional mechanisms as buffers against the turbulence that Trump 2. has unleashed to the world.</p><p>Trump's foreign policy orientation represents a break from upholding the RBIO that underpinned American strategic engagement since the Cold War. His preference for bilateralism over multilateralism, and for economic coercion over diplomacy mostly based on normative values, reflects an overarching commitment to reasserting US primacy through transactional bargaining. In the context of Southeast Asia, this mode of diplomacy significantly alters the strategic calculus of regional states, many of whom have long relied on the consistency and predictability of US commitments to deter aggression and preserve a rules-based regional order (Tan <span>2024</span>).</p><p>One of the most salient implications of Trump's foreign policy is observed in US–Philippines relations. Despite the long history of the alliance, the Trump administration's prior term revealed an inclination to instrumentalize security partnerships. Episodes such as the temporary suspension of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) in 2020 highlighted the fragility of bilateral commitments when subordinated to perceived asymmetries in cost–benefit terms. For Manila, the return of Trump renews concerns regarding the reliability of security assurances, particularly in scenarios where Philippine interests may not align with immediate American strategic calculations. Initial indications seem to assuage any worst case conditions. But in such a context, excessive dependence on the alliance could generate strategic liabilities, especially given the administration's erratic signaling and prioritization of short-term leverage over institutional continuity (Misalucha and Amador <span>2016</span>).</p><p>The South China Sea disputes further underscores the limitations of a transactional US policy in Southeast Asia. While Trump's first administration pursued a confrontational posture toward Beijing, including increased freedom of navigation operations and rhetorical support for Southeast Asian maritime claimants, these actions often lacked the institutional follow-th","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":"17 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aspp.70020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143883975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Participatory Climate Governance in China and India","authors":"Robert Mizo","doi":"10.1111/aspp.70019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.70019","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>China and India have emerged as key actors in international climate politics. Much of the success of the aspirations of the Paris Agreement 2015 will depend on the extent to which China and India can achieve them domestically. While the state remains the key actor in climate policymaking in China and India, the role of civil society in matters related to climate change cannot be underestimated. The paper attempts a comparative analysis of the nature of civil society participation in climate governance in China and India. It probes how much participatory and deliberative space civil society organizations enjoy through the analysis of their role in climate change governance. The paper thus studies the power relationship between the State and civil society in climate governance. The goal of the paper is to uncover the enabling factors as well as obstacles toward participatory climate governance in China and India.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":"17 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143856801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}