By Murray Hiebert & Phuong Nguyen — Two months after the National League for Democracy (NLD) government took office, State Counselor and Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi embarked on a process to start addressing the plight of stateless Muslims…
By Samuel Glickstein — Laos assumed the chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in January 2016, and with it the responsibility for maintaining ASEAN unity. However, maritime disputes in the South China Sea threaten Vientiane’s ability to…
By Richard M. Rossow — From June 6 until June 8, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India will make his fourth visit to the United States since becoming the prime minister in May 2014. While leader-level summits between the United…
By Phuong Nguyen — Thai prime minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha’s keynote speech at the opening of the Shangri-La Dialogue on June 3 in Singapore stirred debate among those in the audience. Some were inclined to think the former general used the…
In this episode, we explore how to build an artificial island. Dr. John McManus of the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School gives a step by step guide to construction and describes the techniques the People’s Republic of China has used…
By Murray Hiebert — U.S. president Barack Obama had the ambitious goal of laying the foundation for a new stage in bilateral relations with Vietnam while visiting the country for the first time May 23-25. He took another step to…
By Phuong Nguyen — U.S. presidential visits to Vietnam, where America was involved in a long, brutal war that scarred its national consciousness, are bound to be emotional events. But when President Barack Obama visited Vietnam May 23-25, the high…
The CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies released a new study assessing China’s 13th Five-Year Plan. The report Perfecting China, Inc. by Scott Kennedy and Christopher Johnson was rolled out on May 23, during a public event at CSIS. The…
By Phuong Nguyen — If Bill Clinton traveled to Vietnam to “heal the wounds of war” in 2000 and George W. Bush to announce the country was open for business when he rang the bell of the Ho Chi Minh…
By Murray Hiebert & Phuong Nguyen — Ahead of President Barack Obama’s visit to Vietnam in late May, officials and analysts in both Washington and Hanoi have been talking about whether the United States should fully lift the ban…