Category: Regional Politics in Asia
Phelim Kine on President Rodrigo Duterte’s controversial war on drugs in the Philippines
President Rodrigo Duterte holding up and explaining a diagram of a drug trade network as a part of the war on drugs Phelim Kine is a deputy director in Human Rights Watch’s Asia Division. Mr. Kine w... Read More
Richard Bush on the impact of Taiwan’s new president on cross-strait relations
Part of the audience at President Tsai's inauguration. Richard Bush is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, holds the Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies, and is director of i... Read More
Dr. Kin-man Chan on losing the hearts and minds in Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s 2014 Umbrella Revolution began with the Occupy Central with Love and Peace movement started by Kin-man Chan, Benny Tai, and Yiu-ming Chu. Dr. Kin-man Chan is an associate professor of So... Read More
Dmitry Gorenburg on Japan-Russia ties
Dmitry Gorenburg is Senior Research Scientist in the Strategic Studies division of CNA, where he has worked since 2000. Dr. Gorenburg is an associate at the Harvard University Davis Center for Russian... Read More
Stephan Haggard on Chinese ambivalence on sanctions against North Korea
Stephan Haggard is the Lawrence and Sallye Krause Professor of Korea-Pacific Studies, director of the Korea-Pacific Program, and distinguished professor of political science at the School of Global Po... Read More
Murray Hiebert on the mega corruption scandal in Malaysia
Anwar Ibrahim speaks during a rally to denounce 2013 elections. Murray Hiebert serves as senior fellow and deputy director of the Chair for Southeast Asia Studies at the Center for Strategic and Inter... Read More
Willy Lam on recent developments in Hong Kong
Riot police stand by on Hong Kong's Nathan Road during the unrest in February 2016 that was later called the "Fishball Revolution." Willy Lam is a veteran observer and analyst of Chinese foreign polic... Read More
Sidney Jones on terrorist attacks in Indonesia
A police box shows damage caused by a suicide bomb attack in Jakarta on Jan. 14, 2016. Four civilians were killed and many more were wounded. Sidney Jones is founder and director of Institute for Poli... Read More