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What Asians hope Abe will say to Obama

Japan’s newly elected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made his first overseas visit to South-east Asian…

February 14, 20135 min

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Legal process, political mess?

The legal process begun by the Philippines to challenge claims by China to the South…

January 28, 20135 min

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The right balance

Everyone’s pivoting to Asia, even Asians. After the Barack Obama administration’s rebalancing and Australia’s white-paper…

January 23, 20135 min

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An EU model for ASEAN?

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) continues its move towards greater institutionalization of the…

January 21, 201313 min

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Singapore and the world, in 2013 and beyond

The optimistic view - if you can call it that - is that crisis will…

January 3, 20136 min

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From Burma to Myanmar: Land of rising expectations

  Call it a case for evolution instead of revolution. While the Arab world continues…

January 3, 20134 min