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...
Category : Insights
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...
Can Malaysia Survive In The New Global “disorder”?
The world is now facing a “new global disorder”: an era of geopolitical and economic uncertainty which began with the imposition of sweeping tariffs during...
Two Wrongs Do Not Make A Right
Whiplashed! That is how most of us following the news about Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs feel! First came the announcement on “Liberation Day” reciprocal tariffs,...
Can Malaysia Catalyse ASEAN’s Fourth Reinvention?
ASEAN has never been static. Since its foundation in 1967 via the Bangkok Declaration, our regional grouping has been through several reinventions....