{"id":293094,"date":"2026-02-20T07:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/293094\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T07:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:56:09","slug":"southeast-asia-braces-for-increasing-divergence-after-mixed-2025-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/293094\/","title":{"rendered":"Southeast Asia braces for &#8216;increasing divergence&#8217; after mixed 2025 growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Trump tariffs, China&#8217;s &#8216;deflationary exports,&#8217; climate risks loom over region<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/3.jpeg\" alt=\"20260219 PH fireworks\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">People watch\u00a0New Year&#8217;s fireworks in Quezon City\u00a0on Jan.\u00a01. The Philippine economy took a hit last year from a major graft scandal, typhoons and trade pressures, but the outlook is more positive this year, according to an Asian Development Bank economist. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>RAMON ROYANDOYAN, LIEN HOANG and NORMAN GOH<\/p>\n<p>February 20, 2026 09:46 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">MANILA\/HO CHI MINH CITY\/KUALA LUMPUR &#8212; Southeast Asia was a tale of two regions in 2025, as countries like Vietnam and Singapore recorded strong export growth despite U.S. tariff turbulence while the Philippine and Thai economies took hits from natural disasters and political turmoil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economy Trump tariffs, China&#8217;s &#8216;deflationary exports,&#8217; climate risks loom over region People watch\u00a0New Year&#8217;s fireworks in Quezon City\u00a0on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[836,2300,61233,138,162191,219,3499,83644,12235,111,139,69,29101],"class_list":{"0":"post-293094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-836","9":"tag-asia","10":"tag-braces","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-divergence","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-growth","15":"tag-increasing","16":"tag-mixed","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-southeast"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}