With maritime security and digitalisation becoming critical global priorities, Estonia is bringing its expertise in maritime innovation, cybersecurity, and infrastructure protection to Singapore Maritime Week 2025.

This week, Elliott Danker speaks with Kaupo Läänerand, Deputy Secretary General for Maritime and Water Affairs at the Estonian Ministry of Climate to find out more about Estonia’s expertise in AI-driven maritime surveillance, port digitalisation, and cybersecurity offers valuable insights for Singapore’s shipping and logistics sectors.

This is an Asia Collective podcast series

This week, we touch on the role of Southeast Asia and ASEAN when it comes to the relationship with the west

What is Malaysia's appeal to the Trump administration as well as ASEAN.

Plus, how does a country like Malaysia prioritize when it comes to builateral relationships? Does it put itself first, ASEAN or the West? And is this something other countries will be thinking of?

Director, Thomas Daniel, Director, Foreign Policy and Security Studies, Institute of Strategic & International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia joins us for this Asia Collective podcast series

Singapore Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen recently said that “America’s primacy has become the overriding consideration” in its foreign policy, at the expense of bilateral and multilateral ties.

He added that Asia’s image of the US has “changed from liberator to great disruptor to a landlord seeking rent.

So if the US is a landlord seeking rent, how should south east Asia rethink defense? And what does this spell for the counter terrorism landscape?

Nicholas Fang, Managing Director, Black Dot and Director for Security and Global Affairs, Singapore Institute of International Affairs joins us this week to discuss these and more.