Indonesia KPK Developments: Supervisory Council Inaugurated While Jokowi Introduces the First of Three Regulations (20 Dec, 29 Dec) Indonesian President Joko Widodo “Jokowi” inaugurated five members of the newly established Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) supervisory council on 20 December. The council members, including a former Constitutional Court...
At the ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting (ADMM) on 19 October 2018, defence ministers from the ten ASEAN nations agreed on the first multilateral air guidelines on engagement between military planes. At the ADMM+ meeting the following day, major powers such as the United States and...
by Simon Tay Some had expected a confrontation over trade and other issues when US President Donald Trump hosted President Xi Jinping in Florida late last week. But there were no missed handshakes to upset protocol – as there had been when Trump met German Chancellor...
SIIA Chairman Simon Tay spoke to Phoenix Television News for a feature on Singapore and ASEAN's relations with the US and China amidst China's rapid rise, part of a series that Phoenix Television has been airing on this topic. The report was broadcast on 28...
In July, the SIIA hosted an evening talk on Russia's foreign policy moves and the implications for Asia, featuring views from Professor Steven Rosefielde, Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. In this interview...
Earlier this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted his ASEAN counterparts at a summit in Sochi, marking the 20th anniversary of ASEAN-Russia dialogue relations. But Russia’s efforts to build bridges with Asia come amidst other policy moves on the world stage, such as in Europe...
The crisis in Ukraine has raised the possibility of Russia cutting off its natural gas supply to the European Union (EU) to retaliate against Western sanctions. But will Russia really do that at the expense of its gas income? If it does, will it be...
As the Ukrainian crisis continues unabated, the US and Europe look set to impose further sanctions on Russia. As a result, Moscow has been making overtures towards a different part of the world, which have led some observers to speak of the “Russian pivot to...
A meeting in Paris last night (5 March) between US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov failed to deescalate the crisis in Ukraine, which reached its apex when Russia started moving in its troops into Crimea on 1 March. Further...
Last week, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attended the opening of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Many Western leaders had boycotted the event, in response to Russia’s anti-homosexual law passed last year. Besides holding talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Mr Abe also had...