SEAFIC Futurist Weekly #4
According to Thailand's National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC), Thailand’s economy expanded 2.8% in the first quarter of 2026, rising from 2.5% growth in...
Category : Insights
SEAFIC Futurist Weekly #3
The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Malaysia has urged the Malaysian government to begin negotiations over updating the Malaysia-Taiwan Bilateral Investment Agreement (BIA), signed...
SEAFIC Futurist Weekly #2
The report marks SEAFIC’s first research output under its ASEAN Monitor series and will inform future work on critical inputs, supply-chain concentration, and regional coordination...
Impact of the Global Energy Crisis on ASEAN
A crisis in Hormuz will not stop at ASEAN’s fuel pumps—it could travel through factories, transport networks and supply chains before reaching household shelves. As...
SEAFIC Futurist Weekly #1
Welcome to Southeast Asian Futures Initiative Centre (SEAFIC) inaugural Futurist Weekly — our platform for context, interpretation, and foresight on developments shaping Southeast Asia....
ASEAN’s Golden Decade – Turning Geopolitical Overload into Geoeconomic Opportunity
As superpower rivalry rewrites the global economic order, ASEAN faces a defining choice: unite to capture new trade, investment and supply-chain opportunities—or remain divided and...
Critique Demands A Voice, Execution Demands A Vision, Courage And The Scars Of Effort
It’s not a stretch to say that the 47th ASEAN Summit and its related meetings were the most consequential—and successful—in our region’s history....
Approved Investments Vs FDI: Manipulation, Or Truly A Non-issue?
In the past few years, every time the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) publishes the figures for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), certain quarters tend to...
ASEAN-GCC-China: A Brave New World?
Posterity, I dare say, will regard the recently concluded ASEAN-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-China Summit in Kuala Lumpur on 27 May 2025 as a historic turning...
Can The JS-SEZ Bridge Supply Chain Barriers Amidst Global Tariff Storm?
I just returned from a trip to Washington DC. I believe the MITI team had productive engagement sessions on 24 April 2025 with the US...