While 🇰🇭-🇻🇳 ties are kinda rocky at the moment, Cambodia- #Thailand relations are warm. Elevation of ties to strategic level few months ago, strong leader & party-to-party interactions lately and now 🇹🇭 hosting the 1st 🇰🇭-🇹🇭 Regional Border Committee meeting. 1/3

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It's now officially out! First book to completely assess the Duterte admin's impact on 🇵🇭politics, economy, & society. 13 chapters written by all-Philippine based scholars & practitioners. Thanks to the contributors a to my co-editor Jean Encinas Franco

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“Those measures could include the deployment of cold storage facilities to the Philippines for agricultural products that China might boycott.”

Big news. Sogavare withdraws from the race to (once again) become Prime Minister of Solomon Islands. He’ll be replaced as his party’s candidate by foreign minister Jeremiah Manele, who will aim to take the top job shortly. The coalition sounds confident it has the numbers

Good snapshot of the complex landscape in Myawaddy. The episode there reflects a wider trend in which militias have helped the regime to narrowly hold on or, in some cases, reverse its losses.

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As I wrapped my trip to China, found a few minutes to visit a record store, talk music, and pick up a few LPs (Chinese rock and Taylor Swift).

It's what I love most about music — the way it lets you connect with people and cultures wherever you go.

I conclude the piece this way: It is possible to imagine a different German trip, in which Scholz coordinated with European partners and Washington, arrived in Beijing with his most capable ministers....

Vuong Dinh Hue out. At this point succession after Nguyen Phu Trong is down to who? Pham Minh Chinh and To Lam…anyone else? Vo Thi Anh Xuan?

Vietnam lost two of the four pillars in a month time.

The CPV permits the resignation of National Assembly Chairperson Vuong Dinh Hue from his state and party positions after days of speculation and about a month after Ex-President Vo Van Thuong's exit in similar fashion.

Philippine president Marcos Jr. is briefed before every resupply mission, as is the U.S. ambassador to the Philippines, officials told us.

Not since the siege of Marawi (!), officials said, has the U.S. provided such extensive, recurring support to a Philippine mission.

Deputy Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai said that Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin did not meet with former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra at Rosewood Hotels yesterday.

He said he had lunch with Srettha at the hotel, but Thaksin was not there.

He said they did not discuss

Worth listening to this podcast with three American experts, including Zack Cooper, wrestling with the results of the ISEAS State of Southeast Asia survey: open.spotify.com/episode/5tYCq4….

Sharp but thoughtful explanation of why FONOPs have become a problem for American diplomacy: lowyinstitute.org/the-interprete….

#Myanmar 2 weeks ago when Myawaddy fell, I was not the only one questioning the allegiance of the Karen border guard force which controls the border town. Now, amid allegations that it helped the junta retake Battalion 275's base, the complexity of the picture is coming into view

I met with Admiral Steve Koehler, Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet U.S. Pacific Fleet, ahead of his visit to Qingdao for the 19th Western Pacific Naval Symposium. He is the highest-ranking U.S. military official to visit China since 2019.

Honored to host today’s 3+3 Senior Officials’ Meeting with our Philippine counterparts, which further reaffirmed our bonds as #FriendsPartnersAllies & our shared commitment to a free and open IndoPacific region. We are building together on a strong foundation of 🇺🇸🇵🇭 friendship.

Territorial 'control' is an awful way of conceptualising ways dif. armed groups are active in Myanmar: how they are present in areas, local nuances of everyday conflict & mediation btw. groups. Result is: maps of control, gov. etc mostly of limited use & often just simply wrong

With Coord. Minister Kemenko Bidang Kemaritiman dan Investasi, co-chaired 🇮🇩🇨🇳 High-level Dialogue & Cooperation Mechanism (19/4), discussing economic & sectoral cooperation.

Reiterated the importance of mutual respect & mutual benefit in fostering bilateral cooperation.