International Relations in India & Beyond
China recently hosted a meeting with 10 ASEAN countries foreign ministers, much ahead of the anticipated G7 meeting in Cornwall, this week. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi organized a virtual meet with his counterparts...
The rise of China and the shifting of the great power politics to the Indo-Pacific have put ASEAN right in the limelight. There are questions over ASEAN’s ability to maintain its centrality in the...
Nine Southeast Asian countries have urged the United Nations not to endorse a freeze on arms sales to Myanmar, according to a report from Benar News. The report by the affiliate of the U.S.-funded...
Myanmar, a member of the ten nations association, called ASEAN, is currently facing a military coup prompting the people of Myanmar to defend their democratic rights. Since the coup, violent protests and murders have...
Fighting erupted in eastern Myanmar near the Thai border early on Tuesday as ethnic minority Karen insurgents attacked an army outpost in some of the most intense clashes since a Feb. 1 coup plunged...
A draft statement circulating the day before a Southeast Asian leaders’ summit on the Myanmar crisis included the release of political prisoners as one of its “consensus” points, said three sources familiar with the...
Southeast Asian countries will discuss the crisis in Myanmar at a summit in Jakarta on Saturday, the ASEAN bloc’s secretariat said on Tuesday, but Thailand’s prime minister said several will be represented only by...
Just five years ago, many people were optimistic that Southeast Asia had finally turned the corner when it comes to democracy. Myanmar’s military had finally loosened its decades-long grip on power when Aung San...
The fall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in 2011 after he sought to hand power to his son must haunt Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen. The prospect was unpalatable to Egypt’s military establishment, which allowed the...
Cambodia’s migrant labour force in Thailand is only a problem for Prime Minister Hun Sen if they come back with COVID-19. Thailand this week deported more than 200 Cambodian migrants in a bid to...
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The Biden-Putin Geneva summit: arms and drums control?
16 Jun, 2021
