ISDP Voices

Introduction Beijing has increasingly expanded its use of legal measures, including laws, regulations, and judicial guidelines, that can affect Taiwanese freedom of speech and movement, even when those measures are not specifically directed at Taiwan or designed within a coordinated legal framework. Taiwanese officials and scholars have increasingly categorized some of these developments as mechanisms […]

Against the backdrop of the comprehensive strategic partnership forming between Russia and China and Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine, it is hard to argue that there is any kind of international contacts between Russia and Taiwan. Nowadays, Russia firmly adheres to the  “One China” policy, recognizing Taiwan as an integral part of China and maintaining […]

After the recent visit by two of the most powerful world leaders, from the pageantry of the Joint Base Andrews arrival to a private tea at the White House, Xi Jinping and Donald Trump announced on September 25 that they would build a “constructive relationship of strategic stability”. The phrase ‘strategic stability’ suggests a settled […]

Introduction Since taking office in 2025, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has positioned artificial intelligence (AI) as the cornerstone of the nation’s growth strategy, aiming to elevate the country into a top-three global AI powerhouse. This ambition is anchored by an unprecedented $880 billion investment package combining public funding with contributions from domestic tech […]

The Indo-Pacific does not end at Malacca. For India, it begins to fail at Hormuz and is secured—or lost—in the Eastern Mediterranean. That is not a metaphor. It is a map problem. For a generation, strategic maps have drawn the Indo-Pacific as an eastern theater of carriers, chokepoints, and semiconductor hubs, while West Asia has […]

New Delhi will host the BRICS Summit this week at a consequential moment for both the grouping and Indian foreign policy. BRICS is no longer the compact five-member forum that India helped build around the politics of emerging economies. Enlargement has given it a much broader geographic reach, greater demographic and economic weight, and an […]

Growing competition in outer space provides India with a unique opportunity to shape a narrative in which collaboration, rather than confrontation, drives space exploration. Recognised as a trustworthy and cost-effective spacefaring nation, India is now well placed to translate its technological advances into enduring international partnerships that contribute to scientific progress, economic growth, and sustainable […]

When Argentina and Brazil signed cooperation agreements on green hydrogen certification with China at the China-CELAC Ministerial Forum in Beijing in May 2025, neither government had a domestic certification framework of its own. The gap between those two facts captures the problem this blogpost examines: the Southern Cone is building green hydrogen infrastructure under Chinese […]

Introduction With 2,383 documented cyber-attacks in 2025, the Republic of Korea (ROK, or South Korea) experienced a 26 percent increase from the previous year. A joint report by the ROK Ministry of Science and ICT and Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) highlighted increased attacks on essential daily sectors—such as telecommunications, logistics, and finance—alongside supply-chain […]

As globalization fragments into competing blocs, interdependence is no longer a neutral feature of the world economy. It has become a source of geopolitical competition. The latest rounds of U.S. export controls on advanced semiconductors, Europe’s “de-risking” agenda, and growing tensions over clean-energy supply chains all point to the same reality: the networks that once […]