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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: 21 October 2021

In August, the United Kingdom became the first country in 25 years to be granted dialogue partner status by ASEAN. Some ASEAN countries welcome a larger role for the United…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 12 January 2024

Vietnam is Russia’s closest partner in South-east Asia and has refused to criticise Moscow over the Ukraine war. Between 2000 and 2022, Russia accounted for more than 80% of…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 12 December 2022

East Timor was concomitantly given observer status and allowed to participate in all the group’s meetings. The ASEAN Coordinating Council (ACC) will finalise an “objective…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 12 August 2021

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was in Hanoi last month. In the Interim National Security Strategic Guidance document released by the White House in March, Vietnam was identified…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 14 September 2023

The two sides notably committed to planning joint patrols in the South China Sea, where the Philippines and China have competing claims. On September 7, Albanese said he would…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 19 January 2021

Delhi and Hanoi declared a ‘strategic partnership’ in 2007 and a ‘comprehensive strategic partnership’ in 2016. Each is wary of China’s growing power.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 21 September 2020

Nguyen Phu Trong is CPV general secretary as well as state president; he is the first leader since Ho Chi Minh to hold those posts concurrently. Meanwhile, the CPV government is…

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