Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited Germany and Hungary from March 4-8, focusing heavily on increasing trade, investment, and tourism with each country. The Germany trip comes seven months after Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Indonesia to establish the comprehensive Jakarta…
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Friday Five: March 15, 2013
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe formally announced that Japan plans to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, after months of debate in Japan and diplomatic consultations with existing TPP partners. CSIS scholars Mike Green and Matt Goodman were on the case…
Why Japan Should Join the TPP
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By Matt Goodman & Mike Green Editor’s Note: This piece is cross-posted from the CNN Global Public Square Blog where it first appeared here. Since the first merchant ship of the new American republic set sail from New York for…
Economics and the U.S. Rebalance toward Asia
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By Ambassador Ashok Mirpuri This blog post is adapted from comments Amb. Mirpuri delivered at a forum called “The Pivot: U.S. Rebalancing, Asian Responses” at the Indonesian Embassy in Washington, D.C. on February 14, 2013. The United States is seen…
Friday Five: February 22, 2013
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This week Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan made headlines by controversially describing what he called, “China’s deeply ingrained need for conflict,” in comments made to the Washington Post, part of an ongoing row over islands in the East China…
Indonesia’s Natural Resource Investment Climate
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By Jeremiah O. Magpile Indonesia’s uncoordinated management of its natural resource sector and a climate of legal uncertainty is damaging government-investor relations in the mining sector, which contributes roughly 12 percent to Indonesia’s GDP. Natural resource investment is also a…
The Dialog: Joseph Yun
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This week Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Joseph Yun sat down with CSIS Sumitro Chair for Southeast Asia Studies Ernie Bower for our latest Dialog podcast conversation. A key architect of the U.S.…
Australia: Finding the Economic Challenge
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By Alastair Furnival With the Australian election now announced for September 14, Prime Minister Julia Gillard will be hoping the bad news is done in the first week: an ex-government member of parliament placed on 149 charges of misusing trade…
2013 Asia-Pacific Forecast: Japan
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By Nick Szechenyi Editor’s Note: The CSIS Asia Team is writing a series of analyses that forecasts key issues and challenges in the Asia-Pacific. Here Nick Szechenyi concisely assesses prospects for Japan’s political stability, economic strategy and foreign policy in…
2013 Asia-Pacific Forecast: Global Economics
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By Matt Goodman Editor’s Note: The CSIS Asia Team is writing a series of analyses that forecasts key issues and challenges in the Asia-Pacific. In this post, Matt Goodman discusses how the world’s major economies face political hurdles to growth…