Southeast Asia
The bigger picture of Indian Defence Minister’s recent trip to Vietnam
While Vietnam is now the seventh country with which India has signed a mutual logistics support pact, it is the first such major pact...
A Little Britain’s Reach Out To The Big Indo-Pacific
As the ideological schism in today’s world deepens, the leaders of the liberal camp are ramping up their activities in the regions they have...
Extending the Olive Branch: China-Australia Relations
It is the third time Beijing has extended an arm of friendship towards Canberra since the new Australian Labour Prime Minister Anthony Albanese assumed...
Three decades of India’s ‘eastward engagement’ and a persisting set of challenges
In this long essay, I look at how India re-connected with Southeast Asia and its regional institutional mechanisms in the post-Cold War context. This...
Will Indonesia Repeat the History of Population Mobility in Borneo?
Borneo is now in the spotlight due to the Indonesian government's impending massive migration. Since the Indonesian government announced capital relocation plans in 2019,...
Reclaiming our future
The Asia-Pacific region is at a crossroads today – to further breakdown or breakthrough to a greener, better, safer future.
Since the Economic and Social...
Return of the Marcos and Great-Power Competition
Ferdinand Marcos Jr., more commonly known as "Bongbong," won an outright majority in the recent presidential election in the Philippines. Son and name-bearer of...
President Ho Chi Minh’s reflections about international peace
President Ho Chi Minh had a dissimilar way of approaching international peace, and he held a view that the way western nations look into...
Vietnam-US relations and the US-ASEAN Summit
Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visit to US should be seen from the point of view of the engagement between Vietnam and US....
ASEAN as the Key Ground of Competition in U.S.-China’s Indo-Pacific Strategies
With U.S. President Joe Biden's visit to Asia scheduled for later this month, Japan's ambassador to the U.S., Koji Tomita, stated on May 9...