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Asia Insights is published by the Griffith Asia Institute. It offers latest commentary and publications on Asia-Pacific affairs to inform and foster academic scholarship, public awareness and considered, responsive policy-making. Our research focuses on energy, finance, policy, economics across Asia-Pacific region.

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Watching Myanmar: Charting four decades of scholarship on a complex state

Download PDF Griffith Asia Institute has published Watching Myanmar: A bibliography of works on Myanmar (Burma) by Andrew Selth, 1983–2025—a remarkable scholarly record… Read More

Between frameworks and frontlines: Youth leadership for peacebuilding and climate justice in Southeast Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean

INGRID VALLADARES, ERIKA ISABEL BULAN YAGUE AND HELEN BERENTS | Download PDFEnglish | Spanish Executive summary This… Read More

Exploring the relationship between digitisation and lower-income status

ALBERTO POSSO  |  The impact of technology on socio-economic outcomes has become increasingly salient in policy debates across both developed and developing countries. In… Read More

Asia’s role in a world unhinged: From disruption to direction

CHRISTOPH NEDOPIL AND GLORIA GE Download PDF The Griffith Asia Pacific Strategic Outlook (GAPSO) 2026 arrives at a historic inflection point:… Read More

What can we expect for the Horse Year?

COLIN MACKERRAS |  This year, the Spring Festival—or Chinese New Year—falls on 17 February. China has traditionally gone by the lunar year, not the solar. Read More

China green finance status and trends 2025-2026

FANG YANG, JINZE LI AND CHRISTOPH NEDOPIL 1. Introduction Download PDF China’s green finance development in 2025 continued to make significant progress… Read More

Meeting the challenges from mis- and disinformation in the Pacific: Issues and policy responses

DAMIAN CARDONA ONSÉS AND LUIS CABRERA [20 MINUTE READ] Download PDF Introduction False and misleading information has been named the world’s… Read More

On being the grass … strategic outlook for the Pacific islands region

TESS NEWTON CAIN  |  When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers Swahili proverb Download… Read More

China: Staying the course

CHRISTOPH NEDOPIL, JEAN DONG AND HUI FENG  | 40-MINUTE READ | Download PDF Introduction Western perceptions of China have become more negative,… Read More

Asia-Pacific’s green leadership: From vision to implementation

CHRISTOPH NEDOPIL AND FABBY TUMIWA  | 30-MINUTE READ | Introduction Download PDF The urgency to address environmental degradation and ensuing financial risks… Read More

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