By Victor Cha, Korea Chair at CSIS and professor at Georgetown University and Kathleen Harrington, research assistant at Korea Chair at CSIS In the week following the November 2 midterm elections, President Barack Obama is scheduled to make several stops in…
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US-Korea Relations: Smooth Sailing in the Wake of the Cheonan (Part I)
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By Victor Cha, Senior Adviser and Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and Ellen Kim, Research Associate at CSIS Korean Chair The sinking of the Cheonan remained the predominant issue in the U.S.-ROK relationship as both countries…
The Second US-ASEAN Leaders Meeting: Pitstop or Plateau?
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By Catharin Dalpino, Visiting Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and Joan M. Warburg Professor of International Relations at Simmons College Perhaps the most significant achievement of the second US-ASEAN Leaders Meeting co-chaired by the United…
Six Years On, the US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement Still Helping US Businesses
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By Steven Okun, Chairman, the American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore Thanks to the vigilance of the US government and the US business community, the US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement continues to benefit US businesses in Singapore – one of the…
Challenges for U.S. Business Come with Singapore’s Improving Economy
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By Steve R. Okun, Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore, and Vice Chairman of the International Trade Committee at the Council of the Singapore Business Federation Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s National Day Rally speech held great significance…
The U.S.-Indonesia Comprehensive Partnership: The Security Component
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By John B. Haseman, former U.S. Defense Attache in Jakarta and U.S. Army colonel and Eduardo Lachica, former reporter for The Wall Street Journal This is a partnership encompassing a number of activities including education, trade, and the environment but…
White House: Joint Statement of Second US-ASEAN Leaders Meeting
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Joint Statement of the 2nd U.S.-ASEAN Leaders Meeting, New York, NY September 24, 2010 1. We, the heads of State/Government of Brunei Darussalam, the Kingdom of Cambodia, the Republic of Indonesia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, the Union of Myanmar,…
2nd US ASEAN Summit: What's on the Menu in Manhattan?
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US President Barack Obama will host eight of the ten leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)[i] in New York on Friday, September 24, 2010 at the 2nd US ASEAN Summit. The meeting underlines renewed American policy energy being invested in Southeast Asia. Headlines from the discussion should focus on three areas …
China and the World: A Case for Panda Diplomacy
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By Tommy Koh, Ambassador-at-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Singapore The simultaneous rise of China and India is the biggest growth story of the 21st century. It has the potential to change the power and civilisational balance…
Thinking beyond Kopassus: Why US Security Assistance to Indonesia Needs Recalibrating
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By Evan A. Laksmana, Researcher, CSIS in Jakarta and Visiting Associate Fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore Foreign security assistance, in particular the International Military Education and Training (IMET), Foreign Military Sales, and…