Tag: Southeast Asia

Daily news – February 4, 2022 p.m.

AFGHANISTAN What the US and its allies left behind in Afghanistan. Amin Saikal, The Strategist: The Afghanistan war is over for the United States and...

Is the United States finally playing its cards right in Southeast Asia? (Premesha Saha, ORF)

The United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, recently embarked on his maiden Southeast Asia tour starting with the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, after which he was...

US’ port congestions drive up freight rates in Southeast Asia (Yin Yeping, Global Times)

Ports in some Southeast Asian countries have encountered a new round of freight rate surge since late November, driven by US port congestions and...

Southeast Asia’s Migrant Labor Dilemma (M. Niaz Asadullah, Project-Syndicate)

COVID-19 has disrupted labor markets around the world, causing a global manpower shortage. Lockdowns in the early months of the pandemic triggered an exodus of millions...

No AUKUS arms race in Southeast Asia (Collin Koh, East Asia Forum)

Regional states have much to say about the potential risks of AUKUS and Australia’s nuclear-powered submarine program. China and Russia both warn about the...

ASEAN Countries Must Lead on Biodiversity (Tony La Viña, Project-Syndicate)

Southeast Asia is one of the world’s most biodiverse regions, and it is also highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Policymakers in...

AUKUS mixed reception a symptom of strategic fault-lines in Southeast Asia (Evan A Laksmana, East Asia Forum)

AUKUS, the new trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States that launched last month, has had a mixed reception....

How Far Have Southeast Asian Countries Come with Digitizing Vaccination Certificates? (Azusa Sato and Anit Mukherjee, Center for Global Development)

In May, we examined the possibility of Southeast Asian countries working together to create a regional COVID-19 Vaccination Certification (CVC) system. We posited that CVCs present...

What the US ‘EAGLE Act’ means for Southeast Asia (Karl Chee Leong Lee, East Asia Forum)

Two months after its introduction to the US House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee, the ‘Ensuring American Global Leadership and Engagement (EAGLE) Act’ has passed the mark for...

Biden’s underwhelming engagement with Southeast Asia (See Seng Tan, East Asia Forum)

President Joe Biden’s failure to personally contact any Southeast Asian leader since taking office in January 2021 has not won the United States any...

Southeast Asia. Supporting the creative economy for sustainable development in Southeast Asia (Pitchaya Sirivunnabood and Herlyn Gail A. Alegre, ADBI)

Many efforts have been made in Southeast Asia to support creative industries and boost the creative economy, realizing the ability of knowledge-based economic activities...

USA/Southeast Asia. What did Kamala Harris’ trip do for US engagement in Southeast Asia? (Brookings)

Jonathan Stromseth and Adrianna Pita Building on previous visits from high-level Cabinet officials, Vice President Kamala Harris’ trip to Singapore and Vietnam adds positive momentum to the...

USA/Southeast Asia. Harris lands in Singapore after US Afghan fiasco, wooing will be ‘ineffective’ (Global Times)

Wang Qi About a month after US Defense Minister Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's Asia-Pacific visit to Singapore, Vietnam and the Philippines in July, US Vice...

USA/Southeast Asia. Kamala Harris begins Southeast Asia trip amid Afghan chaos (Al Jazeera)

Kamala Harris, vice president of the United States, has arrived in Singapore at the start of a short tour to Southeast Asia on which...

Southeast Asia. Bridging geopolitics and infrastructure in Southeast Asia (East Asia Forum)

Kevin Chen, ACI For developing countries in Southeast Asia, growing global interest in their infrastructure needs has been cause for both excitement and concern. In...

Southeast Asia – Depoliticising Southeast Asia’s forest fire pollution (East Asia Forum)

Jayaprakash Murulitharan, University of Cambridge, Helena Varkkey, University of Malaya and Matthew Ashfold, University of Nottingham Malaysia The almost annual haze in southern Southeast Asia...