By Noelan Arbis Thailand’s political unrest is now entering its fifth month, but a solution remains out of sight. Since early November, anti-government protesters have occupied government offices, temporarily shut down parts of Bangkok, and blocked people from voting in…
By Priscilla A. Tacujan The U.S. State Department has put China on notice: international law will be the sole basis for arbitration the settlement of maritime conflicts in the Asia Pacific. In effect, it has rejected Chinese claims based on…
By Noelan Arbis The Philippine government and Muslim rebel group Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) on January 25 signed the fourth and final annex of the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro, first forged in October 2012, that will replace the…
By Abby Seiff The violence and subsequent quashing of freedom of assembly that broke out in Cambodia in early January marked the most extreme crackdown by the government in 15 years. In a nation where the last decade has painted…
By Carl Thayer The Hainan provincial government’s announcement last December that foreign ships transiting through waters within the nine-dash line area claimed by China must get permission from the relevant Chinese authorities is a major escalation of China’s claims in…
By Donald Camp Avoiding Armageddon: America, India, and Pakistan on the Brink and Back by Bruce Riedel, Brookings Institution Press: Washington, DC, 2013, ISBN-13: 978-0815724087, 220 pp., Hardcover $21.58, Kindle $15.37. Bruce Riedel’s comprehensive history of U.S. relations with India…
Ongoing political unrest in Thailand has imposed serious economic and political costs on the country. Although Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has called for snap elections to be held on February 2, the opposition Democrat Party has yet to decide whether…
By Phoebe De Padua Malaysia has had few serious run-ins with China in its dispute in the South China Sea compared to its fellow ASEAN claimants, the Philippines and Vietnam. Malaysia has not seen the dispute as a major national…
By Ernest Z. Bower Thailand is the ASEAN country keeping U.S. policymakers up at night. Thailand is fundamentally important to the United States. It is our oldest treaty ally in Asia and it is a core member of ASEAN. If Thailand…
By Victor Cha China’s Ministry of National Defense announced on November 23 the creation of a new air defense identification zone in the East China Sea, sparking a new level of tensions with Japan, the United States and Korea. The…
