Chuyên mục: Southeast Asia

CSIS – Southeast Asia from Scott Circle – May 12, 2016

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Fully Lifting the U.S. Lethal Arms Ban Will Add Momentum to U.S.-Vietnam Relations

By Murray Hiebert (@MurrayHiebert1), Senior Adviser and Deputy Director, and Phuong Nguyen, Associate Fellow (@PNguyenDC), Southeast Asia Program (@SoutheastAsiaDC), CSIS

May 12, 2016

Ahead of President Barack Obama’s visit to Vietnam in late May, officials and analysts in both Washington and Hanoi have been talking about whether the United States should fully lift the ban on the sale of lethal weapons to Vietnam that was imposed when the Vietnam War ended in 1975. The issue has been given added urgency as bilateral relations have increasingly warmed and in light of shared U.S. and Vietnamese interests in preserving maritime security in the South China Sea. Tiếp tục đọc “CSIS – Southeast Asia from Scott Circle – May 12, 2016” →

CSIS – Southeast Asia from Scott Circle – April 28 2016

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The Overlooked Gap in the Southeast Asia Maritime Security Initiative

By Conor Cronin (@ConorCroninDC ), Research Associate, Southeast Asia Program (@SoutheastAsiaDC), CSIS

April 28, 2016

Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter’s trip to the Philippines on April 13-15 was an affirmation of U.S. support for its treaty ally amid the simmering South China Sea maritime disputes. The timing of his visit—at the end of the annual Balikatan U.S.-Philippine joint exercises and just weeks before an expected decision by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague in the Philippines’ arbitration case against China’s nine-dash- line claim—was a clear message to Beijing and Manila that Philippine maritime security is a priority for the United States. Tiếp tục đọc “CSIS – Southeast Asia from Scott Circle – April 28 2016” →

CSIS – Southeast Asia SIT-REP – April 20, 2016

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CSIS Southeast Asia SIT-REP

This issue includes an update on the situation facing minority groups in Indonesia, an overview of the strategic case for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, and analyses on the Philippines’ security environment and U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter’s visit to India, and much more. Links will take you to the full publications, multimedia, or to registration for upcoming programs when available. To jump to a section, select one of the following:

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ASEAN should choose CUES for the South China Sea

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8 April 2016 East Asia Forum

Author: Lee YingHui, RSIS

Recent developments in the South China Sea are a serious cause for concern for Southeast Asian states, which have a huge interest in ensuring the safety and security of these waters given their importance for international shipping. Ongoing militarisation in the disputed waters increases the risks of unintended military confrontations, threatening regional stability.

A U.S. Navy destroyer. (Photo: AAP)

China’s extensive land reclamation and installation of military facilities on the disputed islands, together with the United States’ increasingly high-profile naval operations in the region, further increase the complexity and volatility of the situation in the South China Sea. Tiếp tục đọc “ASEAN should choose CUES for the South China Sea” →

CSIS Southeast Asia SIT-REP, April 9, 2016

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CSIS Southeast Asia SIT-REP

This issue includes an analysis of Myanmar’s foreign policy outlook under the National League for Democracy government, an explainer on the Philippine presidential elections, and analyses on Vietnam’s challenges in dealing with China and the ASEAN Economic Community 2025’s blueprint, and much more. Links will take you to the full publications, multimedia, or to registration for upcoming programs when available. To jump to a section, select one of the following: Tiếp tục đọc “CSIS Southeast Asia SIT-REP, April 9, 2016” →

CSIS – Southeast Asia from Scott Circle – March 31, 2016

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Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi Has China, Myanmar’s Military Watching

By Phuong Nguyen (@PNguyen_DC), Associate Fellow, Chair for Southeast Asia Studies (@SoutheastAsiaDC), CSIS

March 31, 2016

Myanmar experienced a number of firsts over the past week. The Union Parliament—which now counts former political prisoners, doctors, businesspeople, and poets among its ranks—on March 24 approved a new cabinet to serve under the incoming National League for Democracy (NLD) government, the first civilian government to rule the country in over 50 years. In a speech on Armed Forces Day on March 27, Commander-in-chief General Min Aung Hlaing urged Myanmar’s military to cooperate with the incoming government to help fulfill “the country’s fundamental needs of stability, solidarity, and development.” Tiếp tục đọc “CSIS – Southeast Asia from Scott Circle – March 31, 2016” →

CSIS Southeast Asia Sit-Rep – March 24, 2016

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CSIS Southeast Asia SIT-REP

This issue includes a survey of Japan’s energized agenda in Southeast Asia, and analyses on Indonesia’s turning point in its South China Sea policy, prospects for Myanmar’s peace process under the new government, and the reemerging debate on reviving a quadrilateral strategic dialogue between Australia, India, Japan, and the United States. Links will take you to the full publications, multimedia, or to registration for upcoming programs when available. To jump to a section, select one of the following:

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CSIS: Southeast Asia from Scott Circle – March 17, 2016

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Southeast Asia Dances to the Tune of Japan’s Abe Doctrine

By Phuong Nguyen (@PNguyen_DC), Associate Fellow, Chair for Southeast Asia Studies (@SoutheastAsiaDC), CSIS

March 17, 2016

In Southeast Asia, Japan can be said to enjoy unrivaled popularity. According to the 2015 Pew Global Attitudes survey, an average of about 80 percent of respondents surveyed across four Southeast Asian countries said they hold a favorable view of Japan. While China’s expanding military footprint in the disputed South China Sea has a headline-grabbing impact, Japan’s influence in this critical region is felt more steadfastly, but increasingly so, in recent years. Tiếp tục đọc “CSIS: Southeast Asia from Scott Circle – March 17, 2016” →

CSIS Southeast Asia SIT-REP, March 10, 2016

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This issue includes an overview of U.S. policy toward Myanmar as the National League for Democracy government prepares to take power, and analyses on Australia’s 2016 Defence White Paper, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s shift on the South China Sea, and the role of ASEAN in defending rules and norms in the South China Sea. Links will take you to the full publications, multimedia, or to registration for upcoming programs when available. To jump to a section, select one of the following:

Commentaries

Deep insight into developments that move the dial

“Aung San Suu Kyi Is Key to Further Unlocking of U.S. Sanctions against Myanmar,” by Murray Hiebert (@MurrayHiebert1) Tiếp tục đọc “CSIS Southeast Asia SIT-REP, March 10, 2016” →

CSIS Southeast Asia Sit-Rep – Feb 25, 2016

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CSIS Southeast Asia Sit-Rep

This issue includes a preview of key developments related to the South China Sea this year, analyses on the path forward for the peace process in southern Philippines and the recent U.S.-ASEAN Special Leaders’ Summit in Sunnylands, and much more. Links will take you to the full publications, multimedia, or to registration for upcoming programs when available. To jump to a section, select one of the following:

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CSIS: Southeast Asia From Scott Circle – Feb 18, 2016: A Tumultuous 2016 In The South China Sea

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A Tumultuous 2016 In The South China Sea

By Gregory Poling (@GregPoling), Fellow, Chair for Southeast Asia Studies (@SoutheastAsiaDC), CSIS

February 18, 2016

This promises to be a landmark year for the claimant countries and other interested parties in the South China Sea disputes. Developments that have been underway for several years, especially China’s island-building campaign in the Spratlys and Manila’s arbitration case against Beijing, will come to fruition. These and other developments will draw outside players, including the United States, Japan, Australia, and India, into greater involvement. Meanwhile a significant increase in Chinese forces and capabilities will lead to more frequent run-ins with its neighbors. Tiếp tục đọc “CSIS: Southeast Asia From Scott Circle – Feb 18, 2016: A Tumultuous 2016 In The South China Sea” →

Requiem for a river: Can one of the world’s great waterways survive its development?

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economist – GUO, the driver, pulls his car to a merciful halt high above a crevasse: time for a cigarette, and after seven hours of shuddering along narrow, twisting roads, time for his passengers to check that their fillings remain in place. Lighting up, he steps out of the car and dons a cloth cap and jacket: sunny, early-summer days are still brisk 3,500 metres above sea level. Mr Guo is an impish little dumpling of a man, bald, brown-toothed and jolly. He is also an anomaly: a Shanghainese in northern Yunnan who opted to stay with his local bride rather than return to his booming hometown.

The ribbon of brown water cutting swiftly through the gorge below is rich with snowmelt. With few cars passing, its echoing sound fills the air. In the distance, the Hengduan mountains slump under their snowpack as if crumpled beneath its weight. Mr Guo recalls the drivers who have taken a switchback too quickly and fallen to their deaths in the valley below. He tells of workers who lost their footing or whose harnesses failed while building a bridge near his home town of Cizhong, 20 or 30 kilometres south. He pulls hard on his cigarette. “This river”, he says, “has taken so many lives.”

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CSIS: SOUTHEAST ASIA FROM SCOTT CIRCLE – FEB 4, 2016

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Southeast Asia From Scott Circle – Feb 4: Leadership Changes And Upcoming Obama Visit Give U.S. New Opportunities In Laos
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Leadership Changes And Upcoming Obama Visit Give U.S. New Opportunities In Laos

By Murray Hiebert (@MurrayHiebert1), Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Chair for Southeast Asia Studies (@SoutheastAsiaDC), CSIS

February 4, 2016

Leadership changes announced at a recently completed congress of the ruling Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and President Barack Obama’s planned visit to Vientiane in September, the first ever to Laos by a sitting U.S. president, give Washington an important opportunity to boost ties with this landlocked nation of less than 7 million people along China’s southern flank. Tiếp tục đọc “CSIS: SOUTHEAST ASIA FROM SCOTT CIRCLE – FEB 4, 2016” →

Revving up the Rebalance to Asia

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    By Kathleen H. Hicks, Michael J. Green
    JAN 26, 2016

    The events of this month have reminded Americans that Asia is a region of both great opportunity and significant risk. In just the first two weeks of the year, North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test, China began flying aircraft to airfields constructed on disputed features in the South China Sea, and Taiwan’s opposition candidate surged towards a victory in elections that will likely draw fire from Beijing. Tiếp tục đọc “Revving up the Rebalance to Asia” →

CSIS SOUTHEAST ASIA SIT-REP – JAN 28, 2016

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CSIS Southeast Asia Sit-Rep – Jan 28

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CSIS Southeast Asia SIT-REP

This issue brings you a preview of China’s relations with Southeast Asia in the year ahead, analysis of Australia’s increasingly vital role on global issues, a video overview of the U.S. rebalance to the Asia Pacific, assessments of the Philippines’ military modernization and Indonesia’s counterterrorism measures, and much more. Links will take you to the full publications, multimedia, or to registration for upcoming programs when available. To jump to a section, select one of the following: Tiếp tục đọc “CSIS SOUTHEAST ASIA SIT-REP – JAN 28, 2016” →