Asia Pacific

South Korea’s entertainment exports have grown into a major economic sector through deliberate industrial policy, and other countries studying the model are finding the creative success far harder to replicate than the subsidies.

Low-lying Pacific island nations are pursuing international legal recognition that their statehood would persist even if rising seas render their territory uninhabitable — a scenario existing law was never built to address.

India’s manufacturing sector has grown rapidly as global companies diversify supply chains, though infrastructure and skilled labor gaps still constrain how fast the country can absorb additional investment.

Rapidly aging populations across East Asia have made labor shortages and pension sustainability an immediate policy challenge, and the region’s response — combining immigration, automation, and pension reform — is being watched closely by other aging economies.