Southeast Asia
Indonesia Can Learn from Germany regarding Corruption Prevention and Control
Corruption is like a cancer that is eating away in Indonesia. This haram practice hinders the nation's progress, hinders development, and exacerbates social inequality....
Struggling for OECD membership, Indonesia Needs to Re-understand the Contestation in Global Tax Politics
In the summer of 2023, Indonesia initiated the intention to join the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Following a year, in the...
A Look Into the Hurdles and Prospects of Sino-Bangladesh Relations
The Prime Minister of Bangladesh is scheduled to visit China from 8 to 11 July 2024. Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) talks and 17...
ASEAN-China Defense Cooperation: Recent Developments
Defense cooperation is widely regarded as the highest level of collaboration between nations, typically pursued only when there is a significant level of trust...
ASEAN’s Digital Future: Promising but not Without Difficult Challenges
Despite ASEAN’s digital economy making head waves through its projected growth of more than $1 trillion by 2030, ASEAN’s digital future still faces tough...
Cambodia: Candlelight Election Ban Shows Paris Peace Agreements More Important Than Ever
The Paris Peace Agreements on Cambodia were signed on October 23, 1991, just weeks before the collapse of the Soviet Union which could no...
The Myanmar Question in the ASEAN Summit 2023: Lessons for the Future
Leaders from Southeast Asia gathered in Indonesia on May 10 and made a demand for an urgent end to the conflict in the military-run...
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...
China’s Global Strategic Initiative on Security and CICA Military-Political Dimension
One of the most noticeable and significant international phenomena at the beginning of this year was the surge in China's political and diplomatic activity. The...
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