This week Bonnie Glaser, Director of the CSIS China Power Project, joins to analyze the U.S. Navy’s recent freedom of navigation operation in the South China Sea and to assess China’s reaction. Then Sumitro Chair for Southeast Asia Studies Ernie…
By Ernest Z. Bower & Conor Cronin For the first time in anyone’s memory, foreign policy and national security are poised to figure as major issues in the Philippine presidential election, scheduled for May 2016. Recent polls show Filipinos are…
This week feature a conversation hosted at CSIS by noted journalist Bob Schieffer which reviewed the recent U.S.-China summit. CSIS Freeman Chair Christopher Johnson, former senior U.S. government official Dr. Kurt Campbell, and Financial Times Washington Bureau Chief Demetri Sevastopulo…
In this week’s episode, we hear from President Park Geun-hye of South Korea about the future of the U.S.-Korea alliance and then Foreign Minister Julie Bishop of Australia joins to discuss current geopolitical environment from Australia’s perspective with CSIS Senior…
By Phuong Nguyen For the first time since Vietnam opened up to the world in the late 1980s, the country’s trajectory could shape the future geopolitics of Southeast Asia in significant ways. What that trajectory ought to look like has…
In this week’s episode, we discuss the finalization of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement with CSIS’s Matthew Goodman and Scott Miller. Scott and Matt talk through the geostrategic implications and political path ahead for TPP. Then CSIS Korea Chair Dr.…
By Frank Albert Chinese premier Li Keqiang told his Lao counterpart, President Choummaly Sayavone, in Beijing on September 2 that China wants, “to protect the peace, prosperity and stability of the (ASEAN) region.” The 79-year old Lao president responded perfunctorily…
This week we discuss the outlook for Myanmar’s upcoming general elections with the U.S. Ambassador to Burma Derek Mitchell. Ambassador Mitchell describes some of the key issues the U.S. government is monitoring in Myanmar in the run up to voting…
Before arriving in Washington D.C. President Xi Jinping met with representatives of the U.S. tech sector in Seattle. Our CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative asked Bill Bishop, the author of the Sinocism China Newsletter, what Xi accomplished in Seattle and…
On September 25, during Chinese president Xi Jinping’s state visit to the United States for meetings with President Obama, the U.S. government announced that a new agreement was reached China on cybersecurity. In this short video, James Lewis Director and…