By David Steinberg This bill, introduced by Congressmen Chabot and Crowley on April 2, 2014, was either drafted in ignorance of the situation in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), or intended to stop all U.S. assistance to reform the essential…
On May 1, CSIS hosted Jejomar C. Binay, vice president of the Republic of the Philippines, at our Banyan Tree Leadership Forum. Mr. Binay spoke about the U.S.-Philippines alliance in light of President Barack Obama’s April visit, the significance of…
By Andrew Smith The Australian government recently announced that Air Marshal Mark Binskin, Vice Chief of the Australian Defence Force (VCDF), will be promoted to Air Chief Marshal (four-star) and take over from General David Hurley as Chief of Defence…
By Ellen Kim U.S. president Barack Obama made an official visit to South Korea on April 25-26. Starting his four-nation trip to Asia with a state visit to Japan, President Obama made a two-day stopover in South Korea en route…
By Tetsuo Kotani — China’s growing maritime power is changing the strategic balance among Asian powers. The continental power of Russia, China, and India dominates the Asian landmass, while the maritime power of the United States and Japan secures freedom…
By Yasuhiro Matsuda — No nation in the world today has worked more strenuously than Japan to make sense of “China’s assertiveness.” In recent years, the Chinese government’s perceptions of Japan have transformed. Japan is viewed as a nation perilously…
By Ernest Bower & Derwin Pereira Chinese actions in maritime Asia are raising questions about American willingness and ability to act decisively in the region. That ambiguity is bad news for members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN),…
By Aung Din The political landscape in Burma, also known as Myanmar, has changed since 2011 with the emergence of a purported civilian government and partially-civilian parliament. Forty-nine years of dictatorial rule was replaced by civilian governing bodies set up…
By Priscilla A. Tacujan Philippine undersecretary of defense Lorenzo Batino said April 11 that negotiators had reached “consensus on key points” of a new deal to allow a greater U.S. rotational military presence in the Philippines. But this raises a…
By Bill Hayton The search for the missing Malaysian airliner has demonstrated the capabilities gap between China, on one side, and the United States and its allies in the Asia Pacific, on the other, but also China’s increasingly sophisticated public…