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Expert briefing
Publication date: 10 March 2022

Russia has in recent years sought to increase its economic engagement with South-east Asia to circumvent Western sanctions and mitigate the risk of overdependence on China. Moscow…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 13 December 2021

South-east Asia provides the Kremlin opportunities to advance its ‘great power’ interests. Meanwhile, the region remains a key theatre for the United States and China to play out…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 28 April 2022

Russia is a relatively modest player in South-east Asia in terms of economic footprint, political influence and defence diplomacy. However, its arms sales to the region have…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 5 October 2022

ASEAN’s ‘Five-Point Consensus’ plan to ease the fallout from the 2021 coup shows no signs of making progress, and Cambodia -- the group’s 2022 chair -- has stopped advocating…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 4 May 2022

The event was originally due to take place in March but was postponed because some South-east Asian leaders could not attend on the scheduled dates. Washington and ASEAN are…

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…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 1 February 2024

Myanmar’s junta for the first time accepted the invitation to have a ‘non-political’ representative at high-level ASEAN meetings, standing since its exclusion from such events…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 8 February 2023

This enables the State Administration Council, the junta headed by military chief and coup leader Min Aung Hlaing, to remain in place for another six months. Min Aung Hlaing…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 25 March 2022

Cambodia, chairing ASEAN this year, is attempting to further the bloc’s five-point plan for easing Myanmar’s post-coup tensions. Separately, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida…

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