By Ernest Bower Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter is wheels up for Singapore early next week. He is going to participate in the annual Shangri-la Dialogue, a venue for Asia’s top security officials and those concerned with defense to gather…
On the podcast this week, we analyze the looming humanitarian crisis in Southeast Asia’s waters. Murray Hiebert, Senior Fellow with the CSIS Sumitro Chair for Southeast Asia Studies, joins to help us understand why thousands of people in region are…
On the podcast this week, we explore the disconcerting reports out of North Korea in recent days. CSIS Korea Chair Dr. Victor Cha joins to discuss what the latest missile tests, expanding nuclear weapons capability, and alleged public executions of top leadership mean for Kim Jong-un’s regime. We…
By Phuong Nguyen Myanmar’s upcoming national elections, expected in early November, will be an important test for its reform process. Many in Washington, in particular U.S. lawmakers and human rights activists, will be looking at the outcome of the voting…
By Simone Schenkel India’s finance minister Arun Jaitley allocated $1.2 billion for Smart Cities in the 2014-2015 budget. Yet recent estimates revealed that a startling $1 trillion is needed to finance these cities by the 2022 target. As Prime Minister…
By Owen Jollie The lack of a social security totalization agreement has long been near the top of India’s relatively short list of economic grievances with the United States. When President Obama visited India in January 2015, he and Prime…
By Joshua Simonidis The coup in Thailand in May 2014 and the country’s subsequent deviation into autocratic military rule has alienated it from its long-time democratic partners, namely the United States and Japan. The United States’ call for an immediate…
By Bonnie Glaser Over the past several months a gradual but significant shift has taken place in China’s policy toward Japan. The change is a result of Beijing’s recognition that its unrelenting pressure on Tokyo since the Japanese government purchased…
In our latest podcast, we focus on the 26th ASEAN summit which concluded on April 27th in Malaysia. We caught up with CSIS Sumitro Chair for Southeast Asia Studies Ernie Bower to get his take on the outcomes of the…
By Zachary Abuza On April 20, the United States and the Philippines commenced the 31st annual Balikatan military exercises. They are significant for three reasons. The first is their size. With some 6,500 U.S. personnel and 5,000 Armed Forces of…