By Ernest Bower U.S. allies and partners in Southeast Asia will be pleased to see that President Obama is explaining the basis for U.S. engagement in the world, even though this was not an Asia speech. Obama’s approach describes a…
By Bill Hayton Should ASEAN declare war on China? The question is ludicrous but if you had spent the past 10 days reading commentaries on ASEAN’s summit in Myanmar, you might be forgiven for thinking it was a viable policy…
By Jonathan London Beijing’s recent actions in the South China Sea toward Vietnam are disappointing and alarming. That China is an emerging power gives it no right to impose outsized sovereignty claims on its neighbors. Yet this is precisely what…
Who is he? Suresh K. Reddy has served as India’s ambassador to Iraq since June 2011. He became India’s first ambassador to the country in 2005 and is credited with having strengthened Indo-Iraqi ties. Prior to this appointment, he handled…
By Nobuhiro Aizawa — Southeast Asia, with a population of more than 620 million and a growing working-age middle class, is beginning to reap the benefits of its demographic dividend. Southeast Asia’s total gross domestic product (GDP) was $2.3 trillion…
By Kendrick Kuo & Kyle Springer The movement of the Uighur population from their home province of Xinjiang in western China to Central Asia has long been a problem for Beijing. Strict security policies in Xinjiang motivate Uighurs to resettle…
By Ernest Bower & Derwin Pereira Chinese actions in maritime Asia are raising questions about American willingness and ability to act decisively in the region. That ambiguity is bad news for members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN),…
By Scott Bentley Ann Marie Murphy wrote in PacNet in March that recent developments represent a “game changer” in regard to Indonesian policy on the South China Sea. Disagreement has emerged over the significance of a statement by Air Commodore…
By Aung Din The political landscape in Burma, also known as Myanmar, has changed since 2011 with the emergence of a purported civilian government and partially-civilian parliament. Forty-nine years of dictatorial rule was replaced by civilian governing bodies set up…
By Priscilla A. Tacujan Philippine undersecretary of defense Lorenzo Batino said April 11 that negotiators had reached “consensus on key points” of a new deal to allow a greater U.S. rotational military presence in the Philippines. But this raises a…
