Southeast Asia
Myanmar Must Be Fixed
We live in a world in which a great Asian humanitarian crisis is still being ignored with not much substance being done about it....
Cambodia: Democratic World Must Deny Hun Sen Legitimacy after Election with No Opposition
Two weeks after my article "Cambodia: Government invents red tape to stop opposition registering for election" appeared in The Geopolitics, my worst predictions have come true.
I...
Cambodia: Government Invents Red Tape to Stop Opposition Registering for Election
The Cambodian government is making up new bureaucratic obstacles to try to prevent the risk of any real opposition party being able to contest...
Will the Myanmar Junta Hold National Elections in the Near Future?
Already two years have passed since the Myanmar military junta ousted the democratically elected National League for Democracy (NLD) regime of Aung San Suu...
US Contribution to Repatriate the Rohingyas: Lessons for India and China
The Rohingyas are the most persecuted minority group in the world. Such persecution has forced Rohingyas into Bangladesh for many years, with significant spikes...
Winds of Change: Changing Narratives for Rohingya Community in Myanmar
Myanmar’s longest-running civil disobedience campaign against its military, the Tatmadaw, has created something that was never seen before: a unified Myanmar in the "burning...
ASEAN’s South China Sea Code: Another Room for Great Power Rivalry?
The South China Sea is a significant resource-rich waterway that is crisscrossed by coinciding claims from China and several ASEAN members. The geopolitical and...
Cambodia: Silenced Kem Sokha Remains Symbol of Democracy
When I resigned from the leadership of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) in February 2017, to hand over to deputy leader Kem Sokha,...
China-US Ties: Economic and Strategic Ramifications for ASEAN
One of the major challenges which most Association of South East Asian nations (ASEAN) member states – other than those such as Cambodia and...
Cambodia’s Hun Sen Destroys Last Remnants of Free Press as Elections Approach
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has shown that he has no intention of allowing the national elections scheduled for July 2023 to be free...
Japan-Philippines Ties: Security and Economic Dimensions
The Philippine President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Romualdez Marcos Jr. embarked on a five-day visit to Japan (Feb. 8-12, 2023). During his Japan trip, bilateral agreements...
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Middle East and Africa
China’s Growing Role in Revamping Middle Eastern Politics
Napoleon Bonaparte once said, "Let China sleep, for when...
Indo-Pacific
Bangladesh’s Pragmatic Foreign Policy: Viewing the Indo-Pacific Outlook in a Broader Context
On April 24, 2023, Bangladesh formally unveiled its ‘Indo-Pacific...
South Asia
Role of Indian State Governments in Furthering India-UAE Ties?
In recent years, state governments have become key players...
Human Rights
The Irony of Becoming What You Once Hated
Resistance is a 2020 biographical drama film based on...
