By Sarah Watson — On the surface, President Trump’s first visit to Asia was not about India. Delhi was not on the agenda, and India is not a full member of the regional groupings (ASEAN and APEC) whose summits were…
By Nguyen Thanh Trung — Many eyes are fixating on the incoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leader’s meeting, which is slated to take place from November 11-12 in the central Vietnamese city of Danang, where Vietnam aims to take…
By Murray Hiebert — Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak’s visit to the White House on September 12 has injected new energy into a bilateral relationship that had slipped into a funk during the last two years of the previous U.S.…
By Shannon Hayden — Members of the Asia-Pacific security community, and particularly those from Southeast Asia, wanted to be reassured by U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis’s remarks at the June 2-3 annual Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, but odds are…
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…
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 Matthew P. Goodman, Michael J. Green, & Nicholas Szechenyi — Vice President Mike Pence will travel to South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, and Australia from April 15 to 25, including for the launch of a new economic dialogue with Japan’s…
By Victor Andres “Dindo” Manhit — Key events in 2016 affirmed the growing prevalence of populism and anti-trade sentiments a raft of nations. In June 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, fueling momentum for populist movements…