Identity politics Setting the stage for race baiting in Malaysia October 18, 2019 0 Image Credit: Mahathir Mohamad face.jpg" by *angys*; License CC BY 4.0 Written by James Chin. On 20 September 2019 I wrote about the significance of a political…
Belt and Road Initiative Indonesia: The Belt and Road Initiative and relations with China October 4, 2019 0 Image credit: Construction in Pekanbaru" by World Bank Photo Collection; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Written by Hongyi Lai In this commentary I provide a brief overview of the…
Conservation Deforestation, climate change and indigenous people October 2, 2019 0 Image credit:fuel wood-charcoal by rosamariavidal/Flickr, Licence:CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 . Written by Patricia Blazey Addressing climate change is a complex problem that does not just depend…
Burma/Myanmar The deforestation dilemma in Myanmar September 30, 2019 0 Image credit: inle_lake_049 by WorldSketchingTour/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Written by Win Myo Thu. Deforestation is a widely discussed topic in Myanmar, although it is not…
China Contested Southeast Asia and Taiwan’s Objectives August 24, 2019 0 Written by Josie-Marie Perkuhn. Image credit: ASEAN Business Dialogue by Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken/Flickr, license CC BY-SA 2.0 Southeast Asia (SEA) is one of the foremost…
China-Philippines Fishing in troubled waters: Defence status as an explanatory factor for Duterte’s soft stance in the West Philippine Sea August 16, 2019 0 Image credit: ‘Rodrigo Duterte ภาพจาก https://commons.wikimedia.org’ by Prachatai is licenced under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Written by Ananda Devi Domingo-Almase. In July 2016, the verdict which…
ASEAN ASEAN and the rise of China August 16, 2019 0 Written by Anne Booth. Image Credit: 170511 ASEAN Business Dialogue 3156 by Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. By the early 2000s, the…
Burma/Myanmar Book review: ‘Liberalism and Democracy in Myanmar’ August 15, 2019 0 Written by Debby Sze Wan Chan. Image Credit: ‘‘Untitled" by gforbes /CC; Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Since the dissolution of the military regime in 2011, discussions about…
Film Crazy Rich Asians and competing Asian subjectivities August 9, 2019 0 Written by Mark Gallagher. Image Credit (header image and included screenshots): Crazy Rich Asians (2018). Directed by Jon M. Chu. [Film]. US: Warner Bros. Enterntainment. The…
ASEAN Southeast Asia and the China challenge August 9, 2019 1 Written by Mark Beeson. Image Credit: the joint asean thing by sbamueller/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. As the old adage has it, you can choose…
