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Expert briefing
Publication date: 1 February 2022

Four of the states -- Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam -- are competing claimants in the waters to China. Singapore, the other invitee, is not. Neither is Indonesia…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 18 November 2015

This year's summits, which conclude on November 22, will have particular resonance following soon after the November 13 coordinated massacres in Paris, claimed by Islamic State…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 6 July 2020

At the conclusion of the meeting, a customary statement was issued by the bloc’s chair, which this year is Vietnam. Among other points, the statement confirmed establishment of a…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 20 October 2021

This is in response to what some ASEAN members regard as obstructionism towards the bloc’s five-point plan for resolving Myanmar’s post-coup tensions. Min Aung Hlaing will miss…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 23 November 2023

Separately, regional leaders were somewhat reassured by the modest rapprochement between China and the United States -- influential powers in South-east Asia -- on the margins of…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 4 November 2016

US policymakers feel there is sufficient support for the United States elsewhere in the Philippine government and population to erode Duterte's threats to unravel the alliance…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 18 November 2020

The four countries -- each of which is an ASEAN dialogue partner -- form a security bloc known as the ‘Quad’. China, another ASEAN dialogue partner, resents the grouping, claiming…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 8 April 2022

The two leaders reaffirmed the strength of bilateral relations. Singapore, identified as a key US partner in the Indo-Pacific Strategy document released by the White House in…

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