Media Coverage

Muted hopes for Obama’s Asia visit

FOR all the buzz about United States President Barack Obama's visit to Asia this week,…

April 21, 20142 min

Insights

Obama in Malaysia: more than the TPP

When US President Barack Obama touches down in Kuala Lumpur next week, it will be…

April 17, 20143 min

Insights

Crisis in Crimea: setting patterns of behaviour

A meeting in Paris last night (5 March) between US Secretary of State John Kerry…

March 6, 20143 min

Insights

Stagnating Trans-Pacific Partnership talks and the US ‘pivot’ to Asia

On February 25, ministerial-level talks aimed at concluding a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement ended…

February 27, 20142 min

Insights

Kerry in Asia: Climate-change agenda trumps geopolitics

Beginning last Thursday, US Secretary of State John Kerry met leaders in Seoul, Beijing and…

February 21, 20143 min

Media Coverage

Soothing tensions over China’s ADIZ

Tensions have flared up again between the US and China over the latter’s Air Defence…

February 13, 20143 min

Commentaries

Asia copes with transitions

In the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, two key buzzwords that conveyed the…

January 7, 20148 min

Commentaries

A year in the world

I probably travelled too much this year. I went to New York, Europe, and as…

December 28, 20138 min

Commentaries

Asia’s (re)invitation to Obama

Mr President, Congratulations on handling the domestic crisis of the government shutdown and debt ceiling.…

October 22, 20135 min

Commentaries

What Asians did without Obama

More attention was given to United States President Barack Obama’s late decision to cancel his…

October 14, 20135 min

Commentaries

An unfortunate twist in the US pivot

American President Barack Obama was due to tour Asia next week to attend two key…

October 4, 20135 min

Commentaries

No one nation, whether America or China, can rule Asia

At their California summit, President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Barack Obama discussed a…

June 12, 20134 min