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Some Southeast Asians Are Turning Against America Over Gaza. It Likely Won’t Last.

This is not the first time that regional opinion toward the U.S. has soured over events in the Middle East.

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The Land-Locked Thinking of Laotians

While the Lao government likes to talk about becoming "land-linked," the latest ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institution survey reflects an inward-looking...

12.04.2024 3

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Southeast Asians Don’t Really Care About the Myanmar Crisis

A recent survey of regional elite opinion shows a surprising lack of regional concern about the country's ongoing conflict.

08.04.2024 10

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What Southeast Asia’s Aging Populations Could Mean Politically

Could aging societies lead to more political polarization and upheaval?

20.03.2024 4

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Southeast Asia’s Uncertain Global Outlook

What would be more worrying for the region: a retreating United States, or an economically stagnant China?

13.03.2024 3

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What On Earth Do Indonesians Think About Democracy?

Making sense of a 2023 Pew survey that showed majority support for representative democracy, autocracy, and rule by the military.

07.03.2024 2

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What Do We Mean When We Talk About Southeast Asia’s Demographics ‘Crisis’?

The nations of the region are all experiencing shrinking workforces and rising life expectancy – in some cases at the same time.

05.03.2024 1

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Cambodia’s Opposition Needs to Take a Sabbatical

Opposition parties should take a leaf out of the ruling CPP's book and embark upon a generational renewal.

27.02.2024 4

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In Southeast Asia, the US Should Talk Loudly About Immigration

Washington ought to be doing more to attract the region’s best and brightest.

22.02.2024 4

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Southeast Asia’s Reactionaries Can Embrace Same-Sex Marriage

As in the West, extending marriage rights to same-sex couples will only serve to strengthen the social fabric.

20.02.2024 2

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Aren’t Cambodia’s Journalists Tired Of Being Spoken Down To?

The country's government views the press as an adjunct of power.

01.02.2024 10

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China’s Self-Pitying Empire

The Chinese film "No More Bets," which details the human cost of Southeast Asia-based cyberscam operations, has become a massive hit on the mainland.

22.01.2024 10

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Southeast Asia Likes Polarization – and That’s Not a Bad Thing

The region's problem is not that there is too much political contestation, but rather that there is not enough.

15.01.2024 10

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Anwar Ibrahim, Anti-Semite?

The Malaysian leader has long expressed strong, and at times contradictory, views on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

10.01.2024 7

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Why Cambodia’s Government Cannot Win Its Fight Against Corruption

As demonstrated by the scourge of hit-and-run violence on the nation's roads, the political system rests on the idea that some people are more equal...

09.01.2024 4

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Nguyen Phu Trong Would Find An Ally In Dickens

The political vision of the Communist Party chief is built on a bedrock of Victorian moralism.

20.12.2023 4

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Laos’ Economic Woes Will Continue In 2024

Given their connection to structural features of communist rule, there will be no quick respite from the economic woes.

18.12.2023 2

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What’s Happening At Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base?

U.S. assessments of the Chinese role in the base's refurbishment have shifted subtly over the past year.

14.12.2023 2

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In Cambodia, Foreigners Cannot Own Land. Or Can They?

There are signs of growing tensions between the country's private sector and its rentier political elite.

24.11.2023 2

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Myanmar’s NUG Needs To Win the Peace

As the collapse of the military junta begins to seem possible, attention turns to what might be established in its place.

22.11.2023 10

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How Far the Rot of Corruption Has Spread In Vietnam 

Nguyen Phu Trong believes he can purge and purify the Communist Party. But what if corruption is not a quirk of the system, but its essence?

17.11.2023 3

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Will Cambodia’s Private Debt Become National Debt?

Not all is well in the Kingdom of Hun. Hun Manet, Cambodia’s new prime minister, who inherited the role from his father in August, prepares to meet...

07.11.2023 4

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Can Laos’ Communist Party Recover From the Current Economic Crisis?

For the past three decades, the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) government appeared to prove the claim that Asia’s communist parties...

31.10.2023 3

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In Hun Manet’s Cambodia, It Is the Perception of Change That Matters

The vice of world politics is to judge a leader’s actions by their reputation, rather than the other way around. Perhaps because Hun Manet had never...

24.10.2023 1

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Hun Manet Backs Down On Tax, but He Cannot Deny a Hike Is Coming

Was this Hun Manet’s first gaffe since taking over Cambodia’s prime minister in August? A few weeks ago, the head of the taxation department, Kong...

13.10.2023 2

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Cambodia’s Thin-Skinned Princelings Are Forcing Newspapers Out Of The Country. It Isn’t All Bad.  

On September 14, the Cambodian news outlet CambojaNews published an article about an attack on a government critic that took place two days earlier....

20.09.2023 3

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Is There Any Southeast Asian Autocrat That the US Won’t Do Business With?

Democracy is waning in Southeast Asia, yet the United States is ever more friendlier with its autocratic leaders. The sight earlier this month of U.S....

18.09.2023 1

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ASEAN Gives Laos a Reprieve Over Myanmar Crisis

Usually, the most exciting moments of the annual summits of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are when something doesn’t happen. It...

15.09.2023 2

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