By Michael J. Green, Matthew P. Goodman, Nicholas Szechenyi, & David Parker — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit the United States later this week for a two-day summit meeting with President Trump aimed at reaffirming the importance of the…
By Murray Hiebert — As secretary of state-designate Rex Tillerson prepares to testify in his Senate confirmation hearings on January 11, his predecessor John Kerry will be departing Washington for his farewell visit to Vietnam. The visit has not yet…
By Nicole Smolinske — During Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte’s visit to China in mid-October, Beijing offered Manila more than $9 billion in low-interest loans and businessmen from the two countries signed economic agreements worth more than $20 billion. Duterte’s new…
CSIS scholar Bonnie Glaser, senior adviser for Asia and director of the China Power Project, testified before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces on “Seapower and Projection Forces in the South China Sea,” on September 21,…
CSIS scholar Dr. Amy Searight, senior adviser and director of the Southeast Asia Program, testified before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific on “Diplomacy and Security in the South China Sea: After the Tribunal,” on September…
By Jacqui Chagnon — President Barack Obama will become the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos between September 6-8. He is expected to announce an increase in aid to speed up the cleanup of unexploded ordnance, remnants of the…
By James Wallar — At the ASEAN Summit and East Asia Summit meetings in Laos from September 6-8 President Obama would be wise to lay out a vision of how other ASEAN member states can join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)…
By Murray Hiebert & Phuong Nguyen — Aung San Suu Kyi’s visit to the United States on September 13-14 as state counselor and de facto leader of Myanmar will be one of the highlights in U.S.-Myanmar relations since the two…
In this episode we assess the status of U.S.-Taiwan relations. CSIS Senior Associate Dr. Robert Wang discusses how relations between Washington and Taipei have changed since 1979, reviews the Taiwan Relations Act (2:39), and explains how young Taiwanese are playing…
By Chau Hoang — The recent controversy over former senator Bob Kerrey’s chairmanship of the U.S.-sponsored Fulbright University Vietnam (FUV) deserves the attention of those interested in the progress of U.S.-Vietnam relations. The debate transcends the ethical merits of having…