Asia Policy 20.4 (October 2025)
Asia Policy

Asia Policy 20.4
October 2025

October 29, 2025 The National Bureau of Asian Research ISSN 1559-2960

This issue of Asia Policy features a roundtable on Australia’s foreign policy priorities and challenges; an essay on a U.S. strategy for global data governance; two essays on China’s ties in Latin America, one on China and Brazil’s deepening technological relationship and the other on the implications of China’s investment in Peru’s Chancay Port; an article on South Korea’s options for deterring North Korea beyond nuclear retaliation; and a book review roundtable on Jeffrey Ding’s Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition.

Asia Policy 20.4 will be released on October 29. The essay below is an advance release.

Essay

The Case for U.S. Leadership on Global Data Governance

Nigel Cory and Akanksha Sinha

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