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Myanmar will ignore West and push on towards new polls

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MYANMAR

The army detained Suu Kyi and other National League for Democracy (NLD) officials on February 1, claiming fraud in the November 8 general election in which the NLD increased its…

ASEAN summit will make little progress except on trade

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ASEAN

South-east Asian leaders will discuss the South China Sea dispute, the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar and regional trade. ASEAN’s eight dialogue partners, including the United States…

Australia will seek to entrench US 'pivot' to Asia

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AUSTRALIA

The prospects for Australian foreign policy in the next 18 months.

ASEAN’s 2018 chair likely to bring more stability

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ASEAN

Outlook for the ASEAN chairmanship in 2018.

New Zealand’s ties reset with Pacific will take time

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NEW ZEALAND/PACIFIC

New Zealand's foreign policy towards the Pacific region.

Security likely to outweigh US-Vietnam trade ties

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US-VIETNAM

The load was primarily symbolic, of Hanoi’s response to pressure from Washington to reduce Vietnam's 38.3-billion-dollar (2017) trade surplus with the United States, although…

Pakistan-US relations are on a downward trajectory

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PAKISTAN/US

Separately, Pakistan is drawing closer to its ‘all-weather’ partner China, a key US rival. Washington’s strategy in the Indo-Pacific increasingly revolves around pushing back on…

South-east Asia outbreaks bring risk and opportunity

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SOUTH-EAST ASIA

In recent months, the region has received jabs manufactured in China, India and Russia -- the key practitioners of ‘vaccine diplomacy’ -- as well as shots made in the West…