By Gregory Poling, Michael J. Green, Murray Hiebert, Christopher K. Johnson, Amy Searight & Bonnie Glaser — Today an arbitral tribunal at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague issued a long-awaited ruling in Manila’s case against Beijing’s claims…
By Phuong Nguyen & Conor Cronin — For many Southeast Asian governments, terrorism threats rank among their top security concerns. Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore — no strangers to dealing with violent Islamist threats — have been on heightened alert for…
By Chau Hoang — The recent controversy over former senator Bob Kerrey’s chairmanship of the U.S.-sponsored Fulbright University Vietnam (FUV) deserves the attention of those interested in the progress of U.S.-Vietnam relations. The debate transcends the ethical merits of having…
By Sarah Watson — The policy India uses to govern defense offsets — domestic investments in India required of foreign defense vendors — is in limbo. Despite reports over a year ago that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) was on…
By Lisa Collins — A fake report about the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un by a female suicide bomber from a secret Pyongyang brothel set the Twittersphere on fire late June 16 and early June 17. The South…
Who is he? Retired Major General Delfin Lorenzana has served as presidential representative and head of the Office of Veterans Affairs at the Philippine Embassy in Washington since 2013. He previously held the same position under then-president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo…
By Sarah Watson — India’s new Defence Procurement Policy (DPP) was released in March with one section missing. Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar promised that he would soon release an additional chapter on Strategic Partnerships (SPs): a plan to identify one…
By Shannon Hayden — In two years on the China desk in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, colleagues and I had frequent interactions with China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA). They were our counterparts out of China’s embassy in…
Who is he? Ambassador Sung Kim most recently served as special representative for North Korea policy and deputy assistant secretary for Korea and Japan at the U.S. Department of State. Prior to that appointment in November 2014, he was the…
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…
