Cheng-Chwee Kuik

Jul 6, 2024 | johnmenadue.com | Cheng-Chwee Kuik

In Southeast Asia, hedging is a pragmatic policy that maintains options and mitigates risks. While some ASEAN states, like the Philippines, are aligning more closely with the United States, most are pursuing a more inclusive and selective approach to partnerships, ensuring concurrent engagement with China and the United States. This approach is more desirable in the absence of a clear-cut threat and allows states to maximise other goals while keeping their security options open.

Jun 18, 2024 | eastasiaforum.org | Seth Hays |Morgan Hughes |Amitav Acharya |Cheng-Chwee Kuik

The regulatory drive to encourage businesses to adhere to environmental and human rights standards in their global supply chain operations was exemplified by the European Council’s March 2024 approval of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive. The approval was followed by the 2024 United States Government’s National Action Plan on Responsible Business Conduct.

Jun 18, 2024 | carnegieendowment.org | Cheng-Chwee Kuik

This publication is a product of Carnegie China. For more work by Carnegie China, click here. Chinese Premier Li Qiang visited Malaysia from June 18 to 20, 2024, in conjunction with the fiftieth anniversary of China-Malaysia diplomatic ties. During the visit, Li had an audience with the king of Malaysia, Sultan Ibrahim ibni Sultan Iskandar, and Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.

Jun 12, 2024 | eastasiaforum.org | Amitav Acharya |Jocelyn Chey |Cheng-Chwee Kuik |Darmawan Prasetya

‘Asia’ was built by nationalists, the ‘Asia Pacific’ by economists, ‘East Asia’ by culturalists and the ‘Indo-Pacific’ by strategists. To endure, the Indo-Pacific architecture would have to become more inclusive, multilateral and non-hegemonic. The idea of ‘Asia’ in the modern era was anchored on pan-Asianism. Earlier, Western imperial powers, Britain in particular, had called the region ‘Far East’. But Asian leaders wondered: ‘far from where? east of what?’ and coopted Asianism as a new identity.

Jun 9, 2024 | eastasiaforum.org | Cheng-Chwee Kuik |Robert G Patman |Him Rotha |Qisheng Wu

The Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore has so quickly established itself as the World Cup of one-and-a-half track diplomacy that it’s easy to forget that it started only in 2002. The Dialogue makes headlines for many reasons, including this year via the surprise appearance of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Singapore to drum up support for his efforts to capture the peace initiative in the war against Russia.