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Asia Power Index
2025 Edition
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Foreign policy

The ability of government leaders and foreign policy bureaucracies to advance their state’s or territory’s diplomatic interests

This chart shows the distribution of countries based on their weighted score for foreign policy. Embed

Foreign policy

The ability of government leaders and foreign policy bureaucracies to advance their state’s or territory’s diplomatic interests

  • Rankings
  • Indicators
rank
Year
Weighting 33.3%
  • 1 100.0 China
  • 2 +1 84.0 Singapore
  • 3 +2 83.0 — India
  • 4 +2 81.5 Australia
  • 5 −3 79.8 Japan
  • 6 +1 70.0 Indonesia
  • 7 +1 67.4 Vietnam
  • 8 −4 67.2 United States
  • 9 +4 60.3 Malaysia
  • 10 −1 59.5 South Korea
  • 11 57.2 Russia
  • 12 50.7 Philippines
  • 13 +1 47.1 New Zealand
  • 14 −4 38.7 Taiwan
  • 15 35.3 Thailand
  • 16 +3 23.9 Pakistan
  • 17 +1 20.7 — Brunei
  • 18 −2 19.3 Cambodia
  • 19 +3 17.5 — Timor-Leste
  • 20 −3 16.8 Mongolia
  • 21 −1 15.5 North Korea
  • 22 +3 13.8 Papua New Guinea
  • 23 12.8 Sri Lanka
  • 24 −3 11.7 Bangladesh
  • 25 −1 9.0 Laos
  • 26 4.4 Nepal
  • 27 0.2 — Myanmar
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