Ever since the announcement of China’s Dual-Circulation Strategy (DCS), observers have questioned whether this strategy is “inward-looking” and whether it would affect regional economic integration. This was discussed at the 35th Asia-Pacific Roundtable hosted by the Institute of Strategic & International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia from...
The annual ASEAN summit proceeded without Myanmar. While ASEAN’s exclusion of the Myanmar military leader from the Summit may be unprecedented, it is not the first time ASEAN has had to act strongly and visibly on diplomatic matters. Watch the interview with CNBC as Associate...
The SIIA successfully held the 13th ASEAN and Asia Forum last week. Speaking at the forum, Mr. Desmond Lee, Minister for National Development, Minister-in-charge of Social Services Integration, and Co-Chair of the Emerging Stronger Taskforce said, "If we can manage physical travel safely and become...
It has been over six months since the military coup in Myanmar and ASEAN leaders met yesterday to discuss the appointment of the ASEAN special envoy to Myanmar. On 1 August 2021, Myanmar’s military ruler said it is “ready to work on ASEAN cooperation within...
The COVID-19 virus pandemic has not only hurt lives and livelihoods but has also starkly exposed systemic problems that need to be addressed. Responses to the outbreak across Southeast Asia have been varied. Here are some lessons ASEAN countries can learn from the region's response...
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended lives globally and exacerbated geopolitical tensions. With the US questioning globalisation and retreating from multilateral institutions and growing concerns about China’s global aspiration, how are ASEAN countries navigating these developments amid the coronavirus pandemic? Find out more in the interview...
Vietnam has a lot of good things going for it. On 23 April 2020, it was the first country in Southeast Asia to begin easing lockdown measures after successfully controlling the spread of COVID-19. Growth projections of 2.8 per cent this year from the World...
China’s economy is continuing to slow, with growth dropping to 6.2 per cent in the second quarter of 2019, the lowest in 27 years. We held a talk on 24 September 2019 with Dr Chen Gang, Assistant Director and Senior Research Fellow of the East Asian...
In this commentary for the Nikkei Asian Review, SIIA chairman Simon Tay said that more countries will move forward together, cooperating on an intra-Asian basis, without the US. Full article: Trump is inadvertently uniting Asia [First published in Nikkei Asian Review on 12 November 2018]...
Associate Professor Simon Tay, chairman of the SIIA, said: “Many of the problems do not lie within Asean’s control but relate to the relations between larger countries, like between India and China, which is subject to both trade and political considerations.” Full article: Asian mega free-trade deal stalls in Singapore...