By Elina Noor For a little over a year, between 2013 and the first quarter of 2014, Malaysia’s policy surrounding the South China Sea dispute hit a shroud of confusion. Taken aback by Chinese naval patrols around James Shoal (Beting…
By Victor Cha Earlier today, North Korea announced it had conducted a hydrogen bomb test. We take a look at the road ahead for the United Nations and the United States in response in our latest snapshot post: The United…
By Victor Cha The latest test, coming two days before Kim Jong-un’s birthday, demonstrates that North Korea is not building a couple of bombs in the basement, it wants the most modern, sophisticated, and lethal nuclear weapons program it can…
By Aung Din In February 2016 in Myanmar, the new Union Parliament will begin to exercise legislative power with newly-elected members. Myanmar’s new government will take administrative power in April. The National League for Democracy (NLD) party, led by Aung…
By Megan Kelly – For years, China has occupied a dominant space in U.S. reporting of world affairs. A 2003 study by University of Michigan’s Communication Studies Department shows that while media does not strongly influence the American public’s opinions…
By Aung Din Following the November 8 election, Myanmar’s political landscape has changed dramatically and the country is now stepping into uncharted territory. Both the National League for Democracy (NLD), which won a landslide victory, and the military, known as…
By Phuong Nguyen The resounding victory of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), in the November 8 elections is an outcome many in the United States had long wanted to see. But rather…
By Khine Thant Thailand’s military government said in September that it will embark on a new set of economic policies as frustrations with a slowing economy among farmers in Thailand’s northeast have grown since the military coup in May 2014.…
By Aung Din Since Aung San Suu Kyi met on December 4 with former military dictator Than Shwe, who ruled the country from 1992 to 2010 and was the architect of the 2008 constitution, there has been widespread speculation that…
By Hunter Marston While many observers have been excited about Vietnam’s economic prospects thanks to its participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Vietnam’s rising power will also be manifest on the open seas. Vietnam has made concerted efforts to bolster its…