By Murray Hiebert & Conor Cronin President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo of Indonesia made his first official visit to the United States on October 26 and 27. Jokowi, who was elected in 2014 in an atmosphere of optimism, has struggled to…
By Cuong Nguyen Officials from the 12 countries in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement concluded talks on October 5, after years of heated negotiations. The deal must now be ratified by various individual governments before it takes effect. Nevertheless,…
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…
By Phuong Nguyen For the first time since Vietnam opened up to the world in the late 1980s, the country’s trajectory could shape the future geopolitics of Southeast Asia in significant ways. What that trajectory ought to look like has…
In this week’s episode, we discuss the finalization of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement with CSIS’s Matthew Goodman and Scott Miller. Scott and Matt talk through the geostrategic implications and political path ahead for TPP. Then CSIS Korea Chair Dr.…
By Matthew P. Goodman Five U.S. congressmen take sledgehammers to a Japanese cassette player on the steps of the Capitol. The White House imposes 100 percent tariffs on a range of Japanese imports in retaliation for violations of a bilateral…
By Matthew Goodman & Scott Miller Late last night, trade ministers from twelve Asia-Pacific countries concluded negotiations on the twelve-party Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). TPP is a regional trade agreement of broad scope and comprehensive coverage that combines trade and investment…
In this episode we take a broader look at the Asia Pacific’s economic and security architecture. Dr. Evan Medeiros, former senior director for Asia affairs at the National Security Council, now the Managing Director for Asia at the Eurasia Group,…
By Rui Hao Puah The tiny oil-rich state of Brunei, no bigger than the state of Delaware, grabbed headlines in 2014 when it became the first country in Southeast Asia to introduce a Sharia penal code at the national level.…
Who is he? Nguyen Sinh Hung is commonly considered the fourth highest-ranking official in the politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV). He serves as chairman of the National Assembly, Vietnam’s legislative body. Born in 1954, he hails from…