The region’s fast-growing but fragile democracies have been susceptible to strongmen and autocratic-leaning populists in recent years, propelled by concerns over inequality, crime, and dysfunctional …

With another five-year term, President Joko Widodo will possibly revive economic reform efforts and could take a more skeptical view toward China.

Thailand will go through the motions of free elections in March, but the likely result will be entrenched authoritarian rule and further instability.