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Oct 6, 2024 | 
channelnewsasia.com | Joseph Chinyong Liow
On Oct 7, 2023, Hamas crossed the border from Gaza and attacked Israeli citizens, eliciting a strong response from Israel. Middle East Institute chairman Joseph Liow discusses the state of the conflict one year on.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
thinkchina.sg | Joseph Chinyong Liow
Academic Joseph Liow says that rhetoric aside, it might not be that significant for China whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris wins the November US elections. While 2024 may indeed be the year of elections with almost four billion people voting worldwide, it is the US presidential election this November that will be the most widely watched.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
e-ir.info | Joseph Chinyong Liow
Navigating Uncertainty: Our Region in an Age of FluxBy Joseph Chinyong LiowWorld Scientific Press, Singapore, 2024The era of untrammeled globalization and the enduring spirit of multilateralism of the post-Cold war milieu have faded. The Southeast Asian region is once again confronted by perennial uncertainties stemming from beyond its borders.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
straitstimes.com | Joseph Chinyong Liow
Are the bricks of a grouping that could pose a major challenge to the US-led international order finally falling into place? Recent months have certainly witnessed an upsurge of interest in the intergovernmental Brics grouping. This has included several major South-east Asian economies.
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May 20, 2024 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Nicola Williams |Joseph Chinyong Liow |Hai Luong |Htet Myat Aung
Australia’s former foreign minister Julie Bishop takes on a challenging role as the recently appointed UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Myanmar. To avoid joining the high-level graveyard of UN envoys, diplomats and ASEAN leaders who have tried and failed to negotiate with the junta, she must remember the lessons learnt from over a decade of international peacebuilding and failed mediation efforts.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
straitstimes.com | Joseph Chinyong Liow
On Nov 5, Americans will vote to elect the 47th president of the United States. As the world stands by and watches, one thing weighs heavily on the minds of political leaders from Beijing to Bogota, Paris to Pyongyang: the possibility of Donald Trump returning to helm the foremost economic, military and technological power in the world.
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Jan 28, 2024 | 
straitstimes.com | Joseph Chinyong Liow
On Jan 31, Malaysia will get a new king. The crown will pass from Pahang’s Sultan Abdullah Ahmad Shah to Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar of Johor. The handover will be one that reinforces tradition while setting the stage for testing new boundaries for Malaysia’s political institutions. The selection of Johor’s Sultan as Malaysia’s 17th monarch reinforces tradition in that it keeps to the unique system of rotational rule by the country’s nine hereditary rulers laid down since independence.
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Dec 24, 2023 | 
straitstimes.com | Joseph Chinyong Liow
On Dec 18, North Korea test-fired a Hwasong-18, its most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The missile, which is theoretically capable of reaching anywhere in the United States, flew 1000km before plunging into the waters west of Japan’s Hokkaido island.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
channelnewsasia.com | Joseph Chinyong Liow
SINGAPORE: Henry Kissinger, who died on Wednesday (Nov 29) at age 100, was one of the great thinkers and practitioners of foreign policy of our time. He was also one of the most controversial. In his lifetime, the US statesman cut a divisive figure. A giant of international diplomacy, he was celebrated by many for deep geopolitical acumen that guided United States foreign policy during the 1970s, culminating in the normalisation of ties with China and stabilisation of Arab-Israeli relations.
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Oct 12, 2023 | 
straitstimes.com | Joseph Chinyong Liow
The bilateral relationship between the two largest economies in the world is not in a good place, and has not been so for many years now. If anything, the situation remains brittle, and further deterioration can be easily triggered by another “balloon incident”, another round of tariffs and sanctions, an incident at sea, or a visit involving Taiwan. For us in South-east Asia, the proverbial question of “choice” hangs like the Sword of Damocles over our region.
