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…
By Jonathan Bogais — Tensions are running high in Myanmar’s northwestern Rakhine State ahead of the November 8 general elections. The Organization for the Protection of Race and Religion, a body of ultra-nationalist monks—known locally as MaBaTha—is raising the stakes…
By Phuong Nguyen Editor’s Note: The following post is the third in a series by CSIS Sumitro Chair scholars framing the political situation ahead of Myanmar’s general elections in November 2015. When Myanmar’s military, known as the tatmadaw, helped orchestrate…
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…
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…
By Murray Hiebert Editor’s Note: The following post is the second in a series by CSIS Sumitro Chair scholars framing the political situation ahead of Myanmar’s general elections in November 2015. One of the biggest unknowns about Myanmar’s November 8…
Who is she? Marise Payne is an Australian senator and member of Australia’s Liberal Party. She has represented New South Wales in the Australian senate for 19 years, and has served on a variety of joint and Senate committees, including…
By Hunter Marston The general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong succeeded in advancing Vietnam-Japan relations on his trip to Tokyo from September 15 to 18. At a press conference on September 15, Trong and Japanese…
By Jonathan Bogais — Australia’s new prime minister Malcolm Turnbull singled out Tony Abbott’s apparent denial about the serious challenges facing the country’s economy and his inability to communicate his economic agenda to explain why he challenged his predecessor in…
By Gene Choi In April 2013, China fully financed $350 million to build a new 1.8 mile-long bridge with North Korea, a rare friendly gesture amid deteriorating North Korea-China relations under Kim Jong-un. A year later in October 2014, North…
