tariffs complicate trade arithmetic

with monsoon unpredictability, urban heatwaves, and border tensions, while seeking to position itself as an alternative manufacturing hub in electronics, defense, and pharmaceuticals, even as new U.S. tariffs complicate trade arithmetic; in Southeast Asia, ASEAN struggles to forge consensus on Myanmar’s civil war as violence intensifies and refugees strain Thailand, Bangladesh, and beyond, while governments from Indonesia to Vietnam court investment in critical minerals, EV supply chains, and data centers ufabet888