By Zhu Yihong Renminbi (RMB) internationalization, like other Chinese initiatives such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the One Belt, One Road initiative, has received significant attention during its opening stage. Since the 2008 global financial crisis, the…
On the podcast this week, we analyze the looming humanitarian crisis in Southeast Asia’s waters. Murray Hiebert, Senior Fellow with the CSIS Sumitro Chair for Southeast Asia Studies, joins to help us understand why thousands of people in region are…
By John Schaus In advance of travel, the secretary of defense will often receive a scene-setter document outlining the issues and objectives to be achieved during the trip. The document below is presented, roughly, in the style of such a…
By Zachary Abuza The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) recently released their 2014 database, which shows robust growth in defense spending throughout Southeast Asia. Though the SIPRI data only goes through 2014, when at least two countries have already…
By Gregory Poling Most observers could be forgiven for seeing the April 26–27 ASEAN Summit in Malaysia as another in a long series of head-of-state talk shops by the grouping. It did not issue any groundbreaking new declarations on the…
Through the Lens: Living Earth from CogitAsia The CSIS Sumitro Chair for Southeast Asia Studies is pleased to invite you for a discussion with Kerry Sieh, director of the Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS). He will talk about the EOS’s…
Who is he? Chan Chun Sing was until recently Singapore’s minister for social and family development and second minister of defense. He was appointed deputy secretary-general of the National Trade Unions Congress (NTUC), Singapore’s official trade union, in January. Before…
This week we look ahead to Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to the United States. Longtime U.S.-Japan hands CSIS Japan Chair Dr. Michael Green and CSIS Simon Chair Matthew Goodman join the podcast to describe the state of the…
On the show this week, CSIS Japan Chair Fellow Zack Cooper joins to discuss Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter’s trip to Japan and South Korea, the U.S.-Japan alliance, the security situation in the East and South China Seas, and U.S.…
This week we discuss the global reaction to the passing of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew with CSIS Sumitro Chair Senior Fellow Murray Hiebert. Hiebert describes Lee’s legacy, explains what Lee and the Singaporean people have accomplished, and assesses whether Singapore’s politics will be more…
