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Expert briefing
Publication date: 29 December 2016

Outlook for US policy towards South-east Asia under the Trump administration.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 11 August 2017

Regional leaders had been anxious that Washington under US President Donald Trump seemed relatively uninterested in the region. Tillerson was also preparing the way for Trump’s…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 6 October 2017

This is the first visit to Washington by a Thai prime minister since 2005. Thai-US relations have been much cooler since the mid-2014 military coup that Prayuth, as an army…

Graphic analysis
Publication date: 9 November 2017

US President Donald Trump is attending the APEC summit in Vietnam where trade is high on the agenda

Expert briefing
Publication date: 20 September 2017

Trump had said his attendance was certain, but now he appears less sure. This is raising fresh questions about his administration’s policy towards South-east Asia, a region which…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 7 October 2020

The region’s states try to avoid being drawn in, individually and under the aegis of ASEAN. If tensions between Washington and Beijing were to get out of hand, they could come…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 18 October 2017

The preferential US trade programme faces renewal or lapse by December 31. South-east Asia’s economies are structured to take advantage of the GSP and many of the products…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 5 October 2017

Trump’s administration has not yet developed a clear and full policy towards South-east Asia, but his team has focused on gaining ASEAN states’ cooperation in US efforts to rein…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 25 September 2020

Japan is viewed by ASEAN states as the most constructive player among the major powers. China is seen as aggressive and the United States as unreliable under President Donald…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 14 August 2017

The CoC would codify principles and processes to guide states’ activities and control incidents in the contested sea. The framework’s adoption at the ministerial level is a small…

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