Last weekend’s Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore was the first since 2019 because of the Covid-19 pandemic, which seemed to make the event cathartic for pent-up tensions in the international system. Taiwan was a major topic …
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Several recurring debates animate foreign policy. The most basic is how much foreign policy to have, or how to strike the right balance between addressing domestic issues and problems abroad—in extreme form a debate between …
This month’s US–ASEAN Special Summit hosted by President Joe Biden in Washington was a symbolically significant and necessary step towards giving Southeast Asian states what they want: respect on their own terms and backing for …
The Biden administration attracted a dozen nations to the launch of its Indo-Pacific Economic Framework but the lack of commitment to the plan from either the United States or the region suggests it’s unlikely to …
In hindsight, perhaps ASEAN was too optimistic about the Biden presidency. Who could blame it? After four years of the Trump administration, the region was more than ready to return to deeper engagement with the …