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David HuttThe Diplomat |
This is not the first time that regional opinion toward the U.S. has soured over events in the Middle East.
While the Lao government likes to talk about becoming "land-linked," the latest ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institution survey reflects an inward-looking...
A recent survey of regional elite opinion shows a surprising lack of regional concern about the country's ongoing conflict.
Could aging societies lead to more political polarization and upheaval?
What would be more worrying for the region: a retreating United States, or an economically stagnant China?
Making sense of a 2023 Pew survey that showed majority support for representative democracy, autocracy, and rule by the military.
The nations of the region are all experiencing shrinking workforces and rising life expectancy – in some cases at the same time.
Opposition parties should take a leaf out of the ruling CPP's book and embark upon a generational renewal.
Washington ought to be doing more to attract the region’s best and brightest.
As in the West, extending marriage rights to same-sex couples will only serve to strengthen the social fabric.
The country's government views the press as an adjunct of power.
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.
The region's problem is not that there is too much political contestation, but rather that there is not enough.
The Malaysian leader has long expressed strong, and at times contradictory, views on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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...
The political vision of the Communist Party chief is built on a bedrock of Victorian moralism.
Given their connection to structural features of communist rule, there will be no quick respite from the economic woes.
U.S. assessments of the Chinese role in the base's refurbishment have shifted subtly over the past year.
There are signs of growing tensions between the country's private sector and its rentier political elite.
As the collapse of the military junta begins to seem possible, attention turns to what might be established in its place.
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?
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...
For the past three decades, the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) government appeared to prove the claim that Asia’s communist parties...
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...
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...
On September 14, the Cambodian news outlet CambojaNews published an article about an attack on a government critic that took place two days earlier....
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....
Usually, the most exciting moments of the annual summits of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are when something doesn’t happen. It...