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NIKKEI Asia -Special Edition January 12, 2025 2025 outlook: Asia braces for the Trump storm

 NIKKEI Asia -Special Edition 

January 12, 2025

2025 outlook: Asia braces for the Trump storm



As 2025 begins, people across Asia are now bracing for the storm that will be unleashed when Donald Trump takes office as U.S. president on Jan. 20. A number of Nikkei Asia's regular columnists have tried to forecast what may be in store in a series of articles published across the New Year.

 

Brahma Chellaney says Trump should use his high favorability rating in India to forge a "soft" alliance with New Delhi, while William Pesek writes that Trump 2.0 is on a collision course with Chinese President Xi Jinping's "Made in China 2025" dream. In Southeast Asia, David Hutt writes that the Hun family in Cambodia faces external pressure and internal unrest, and Richard Heydarian says that ASEAN's interest in BRICS is a hedge against Trump.

 

The coming year will be a test for both Japan and South Korea's economies, as well as bilateral ties -- especially with Japan-friendly President Yoon Suk Yeol having been impeached and facing arrest. And with 2025 marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, Nikkei Asia Editor-in-Chief Shin Nakayama argues that it is time for Asian nations to step up and fill the global leadership vacuum by learning from historical lessons and harnessing collective wisdom.

 

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Selected for you

Trump must seize moment to forge 'soft' alliance with India

Washington needs New Delhi more than ever to prevail against China


Trump 2.0 is on collision course with Xi's 'Made in China 2025' dream

China's economy will be bombarded by a Trumpian storm of policy pivots no one can predict


Cambodia in 2025: Hun family faces external pressure and internal unrest

Father and son 'stuck' between sovereignty spats, Trump's hawks and nationalist dissent


ASEAN's interest in BRICS is a hedge against Trump

De-dollarization makes sense for major Southeast Asian economies


2025 promises to test Japan's and South Korea's economies

The return of Trump and low growth rates hang over the shaky democracies


Japan and South Korea must keep relations on track in 2025

Both Tokyo and Seoul have political headaches, albeit of differing magnitudes








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