By Blake Day Singapore has faced a spat of corruption cases involving public officials in the past year. Some pointed to these scandals as early signs of future difficulties. But recent actions taken by the Singaporean government suggest that quite…
By Amy Killian The countries of mainland Southeast Asia—Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam—are geographically interconnected and bound to each other by a set of cross-border issues. But the Lao government’s decision in July to proceed with the Don Sahong…
By Brian Harding On August 29, Brunei will host the second ASEAN Defense Ministers Meeting Plus (ADMM+), a forum established during Vietnam’s 2010 ASEAN chairmanship that consists of 18 members – the 10 ASEAN nations plus the United States, Japan,…
By Carl Thayer On July 28, Cambodia held its fifth national election since UN-supervised elections in 1993. On August 12, the National Election Committee issued the first official results. The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) received 3,235,969 votes while the…
By Ernie Bower President Barack Obama intends to follow through on his plans to pivot or rebalance the focus of U.S. foreign policy toward the Indo-Pacific region. In June, he instructed his Cabinet members to each plan a trip to…
By Prashant Agrawal These are difficult times for India. The exchange rate has hit an all-time low, the current account deficit is soaring, foreign investment inflow has slowed to a trickle, the price of fuel and basic goods are skyrocketing,…
By Kaelyn Lowmaster On August 9, Mayor Chen Chu of Kaohsiung, Taiwan’s largest municipality, embarked on a six-day visit to four cities in mainland China. Mayor Chen is a leading member of Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), the pro-independence opposition…
Who is he? Zaw Oo is a senior research fellow and director of research at the Centre for Economic and Social Development of the Myanmar Development Resource Institute, a leading Myanmar think-tank based in Yangon. Zaw Oo previously taught at…
By Sidney Jones Land and resource conflicts are an increasing source of violence in Indonesia, and a looming showdown in Sumatra shows why. The dispute in Mesuji, Lampung province is over an industrial tree plantation, but it could just as…
CSIS, in partnership with leading Australian think tank, the Lowy Institute for International Policy, has released the second session in the new video series “Views Across the Pacific” which is a discussion between CSIS Freeman Chair and Senior Adviser, Chris Johnson and Lowy Institute East Asia Program Director Linda Jakobson on China.
By Tridivesh Singh Maini Indo-Pak dialogue, which was suspended in the aftermath of tensions across the Line of Control (LOC) in January 2013, was to resume in August 2013, and prime ministers of both countries were to meet in New…
Who is he? Li Keqiang serves as Premier of the People’s Republic of China, where he oversees the State Council, China’s cabinet. He concurrently holds the number two position on the Politburo Standing Committee, China’s top decision making body, ranking…
