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…
There is widespread recognition of the importance of the political-economies of Indian states. Yet there is a lack of hard, credible information on what states are doing to strengthen or weaken their own economies. The CSIS Wadhwani Chair in U.S.…
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…
Before arriving in Washington D.C. President Xi Jinping met with representatives of the U.S. tech sector in Seattle. Our CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative asked Bill Bishop, the author of the Sinocism China Newsletter, what Xi accomplished in Seattle and…
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? Somkid Jatusripitak was most recently an economic adviser to Thailand’s governing National Council for Peace and Order. He previously served as deputy prime minister and commerce minister from 2001 to 2006 under the government of ousted prime…
