‘Kim Keon-hee Risk’ Is a Ticking Time Bomb for South Korea’s President
“Risk” is a widely applied term in South Korean politics. Typically, the word follows a person’s name or an event to indicate that the noun may harm a politician’s agenda or reputation. There is, for...
View ArticleFrance’s Colonial Legacy in the Pacific: A Contemporary Crisis
There has been much reflecting on Pacific colonial legacies of late. With the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Apia, Samoa, from October 21, light harshly shone on the British...
View ArticleMalaysian Court Rules Evidence Sufficient for Second 1MDB Trial to Proceed
A Malaysian court has ordered imprisoned former Prime Minister Najib Razak to enter his defense on 25 additional charges related to the of the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal. In a hearing this...
View ArticleIndonesia’s Prabowo to Visit China, US on First Foreign Trip
Indonesia’s newly-inaugurated President Prabowo Subianto will visit China and the United States when he undertakes his first overseas trip next month, the local newspaper Kompas reported yesterday,...
View ArticleTalking ASEAN Supply Chains With Chris Catto-Smith
Why do Southeast Asian farmers get paid so little? How can people respond to the immediate impact of climate change? What must governments in ASEAN do if they’re serious about cross-border trade? Why...
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Rohingya Community Is Divided Over Arakan Army’s Plan for ‘Inclusive...
The Arakan Army (AA) and its political wing, the United League of Arakan (ULA), have embarked on the ambitious and arduous task of erecting an “inclusive administration” in the areas captured from the...
View ArticleExistential Questions: How Russian Narratives Question Central Asian...
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Central Asian leaders have been increasingly wary of the Kremlin’s policies toward the region. Russian media started relaying rhetoric by Russian scholars...
View ArticleSri Lanka Strengthens Maritime Capabilities With New Surveillance Aircraft
Sri Lanka recently received two advanced surveillance aircraft from the United States and Australia, marking a significant step in deepening ties with Western defense partners as well as safeguarding...
View ArticleAsia’s Security Order According to India
In 2022, India’s Minister for External Affairs S. Jaishankar outlined India’s vision for Asia and, more broadly, the Indo-Pacific by stressing “more collaboration and more integration.” For India, that...
View ArticleVietnamese Court Sentences Dissident Blogger to 12 Years in Prison
A Vietnamese court yesterday sentenced the blogger Duong Van Thai to 12 years in prison on charges of publishing anti-state propaganda following a trial in Hanoi. According to a Radio Free Asia (RFA)...
View ArticleWhy Pressuring Thailand on North Korea Misses the Mark
In 2017, following a series of North Korean missile launches that included the debut of the Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile, the U.S. unsuccessfully pressed its treaty ally Thailand to...
View ArticleHalloween: A Time To Ask What Truly Scares Us
As Halloween is celebrated all across the world on October 31, children and adults alike will dress up in costumes, go trick-or-treating, and visit haunted houses where monsters and ghouls abound....
View ArticleAhead of US Presidential Election, North Korea Launches ICBM
North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Thursday, according to the South Korean military. The missile was launched from Pyongyang, a capital of North Korea, at 7:11 a.m....
View ArticleCan Malaysia Lead ASEAN on Accountability for Myanmar’s Muslim Minorities?
As Malaysia takes on the chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for 2025, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim faces a critical choice. For years, Muslim minorities in Myanmar have...
View ArticleWhat a Trump Re-election Would Mean for Taiwan
Donald Trump recently signaled that Taiwan could receive less support from Washington should he win the U.S. presidential election on November 5. The Republican candidate and former president has...
View ArticleWill Japan’s Election Mark the End of Abe Diplomacy?
In the House of Representatives election held on October 27, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its coalition partner, Komeito, suffered a major defeat. As a result, the LDP government that...
View ArticleThe Next Chapter of Indonesia’s ‘Downstreaming’ Agenda
In the 19th century, the Peruvian economy was riding high as the country had an abundance of guano, a substance used for fertilizer. However, in 1909, Peru’s edge vanished overnight as German...
View ArticleVietnam Spratly Island Construction Continuing at Rapid Pace, Report Says
Vietnamese construction work in the Spratly Islands continues to move forward, with “potential military structures” including runways taking shape on several of its outposts in the archipelago, a U.S....
View ArticleIndonesia’s Constitutional Court Orders Changes to Contentious Jobs Law
Indonesia’s Constitutional Court has ordered the government to make a number of changes to its controversial Job Creation law in response to a petition by a group of labor unions. The court was...
View ArticleNorth Korean Balloons and Kim Jong Un’s New Psychological Warfare
A shocking incident occurred in South Korea on October 24 when suspected propaganda materials from North Korean “trash balloons” landed at the Presidential Office in Yongsan, Seoul, during preparations...
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