China is expected to fill a gap in aid funding to Australia's region as the Trump administration slashes US development ...

South-East Asia is not wholly at the mercy of warring great powers, though. It boasts a thick web of bilateral free-trade agreements.

All across South-East Asia railways are old and slow, and tend not to connect with one another. The region has only 24,000km of railway lines—roughly the same as Mexico, which has a land mass ...