By Murray Hiebert & Gregory Poling — Fan Changlong, vice chairman of China’s Central Military Commission, was scheduled to make a two-day official visit to Hanoi on June 18-19 before joining Vietnam’s defense minister Ngo Xuan Lich for a series…
By Jonathan D. London — The visit to Washington by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (it rhymes with book) of Vietnam on May 30-31 will occur amid levels of political tumult not seen in the United States since the Nixon…
By Murray Hiebert & Nguyen Manh Hung — Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc will be the first Southeast Asian head of government to visit the United States and meet with President Donald Trump in the White House. Phuc, who…
In this episode we explore how Japan’s relations with Southeast Asia have expanded from economic engagement and development assistance to also include security collaboration and maritime capacity building. To discuss the dynamics of Japan-Southeast Asia relations, we turned to Dr.…
By Murray Hiebert — For the first few months of the Donald Trump administration, Southeast Asia wondered where it would fit in the new president’s global calculus. Trump had given few clues during the election campaign about engaging this dynamic…
By Geoffrey Hartman — The foreign ministers of all 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will travel to Washington for a joint May 4 meeting with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Coordinating the travel of all…
By Murray Hiebert — Much of Vice President Mike Pence’s trip to northeast Asia has focused on containing North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, but when he lands in Indonesia on April 20 his attention will pivot to reassuring the rest…
By Murray Hiebert — The election of Donald Trump, who has moved slowly to fill many key foreign policy posts and spell out his policies toward Southeast Asia, created some uncertainty and heartburn in Hanoi. “Some countries think there’s a…
By Victor Cha, Bonnie Glaser, Matthew P. Goodman, Michael J. Green, Christopher K. Johnson, & Scott Kennedy — Background President Donald Trump will host President Xi Jinping of China at Mar-a-Lago on April 6–7. This will be the first opportunity…
By Victor Andres “Dindo” C. Manhit — With all the change in the Philippines’ foreign relations, there is something to be said for going back to basics: understanding the foundations of our alliance, what it has accomplished, and its possible…