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Bunn Nagara

Director and Senior Fellow, Renaissance Strategic Research Institute and the BRI Caucus (Asia-Pacific)

Bunn Nagara is a geostrategic consultant, the director and a senior fellow of the Renaissance Strategic Research Institute and the BRI Caucus (Asia-Pacific), and an honorary fellow of the Perak Academy. He was a senior fellow at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies and research fellow at the Institute of South-East Asian Studies and the Japan Institute of International Affairs. He has also been editor of research journals and print and broadcast news media. His research interests include regional integration, East Asian geopolitics and contemporary grand strategies, having contributed chapters and co-editing books on strategic and security studies. Mr Nagara has also presented lectures, seminars and workshops at academic, statutory and corporate settings including training programmes for Malaysian security forces.

Articles by Bunn Nagara

Economy

Why China will win the tariff war

Thus far, the Trump administration has shown little finesse in trying to get China and other countries to the negotiating table on tariffs. Meanwhile, Trump’s policy incoherence is causing global uncertainty, casting doubt as to whether there is a method to the madness. Malaysian researcher Bunn Nagara shares his observations.

Bunn Nagara

06 May 2025

Politics

Why Malaysia has no problems with China

Malaysian academic Bunn Nagara explains how Malaysian foreign policy and the psyche of Southeast Asian countries remain very much tied to the principles of the non-aligned movement established more than 50 years ago. It is this spirit that helps Malaysia stay above the fray amid the US-China tussle.

Bunn Nagara

22 Apr 2024