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Mar 3, 2025 | 
cfr.org | Joshua Kurlantzick
The Trump administration has significantly reduced U.S. foreign assistance for democracy promotion, weakening critical support structures in regions like Southeast Asia.
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Feb 15, 2025 | 
cfr.org | Joshua Kurlantzick
The Trump administration’s tariffs on China and reciprocal trade policies will lead Southeast Asian countries to seek alternative trade partners and increase China’s influence in the region.
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Jan 27, 2025 | 
worldpoliticsreview.kinsta.cloud | Joshua Kurlantzick |Abigail McGowan
Singapore’s ruling People’s Action Party has long been famous for never losing an election, winning every vote since the city-state became independent in 1965. To be sure, in the past the PAP won by tilting the playing field in its favor before Election Day, and to some extent it still does so today. But rather than using obvious and outright authoritarian tactics to win votes, the PAP has shifted toward using subtler means.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
newcriterion.com | Gordon Chang |Joshua Kurlantzick
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
worldpoliticsreview.com | Joshua Kurlantzick |Abigail McGowan
Singapore’s ruling People’s Action Party has long been famous for never losing an election, winning every vote since the city-state became independent in 1965. To be sure, in the past the PAP won by tilting the playing field in its favor before Election Day, and to some extent it still does so today. But rather than using obvious and outright authoritarian tactics to win votes, the PAP has shifted toward using subtler means.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
cfr.org | Joshua Kurlantzick |Abigail McGowan
Singapore’s ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) has been renowned for its unbroken streak of election victories since the island state gained independence. Historically, and to some extent even today, the PAP has secured these wins by creating favorable conditions before Election Day. More From Our Experts Rather than using obvious and outright authoritarian tactics to win votes, the PAP has used subtler means.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
brnw.ch | Elliott Abrams |Joshua Kurlantzick |Robin Niblett |Michael Pettis
U.S. President Joe Biden’s two major foreign policy achievements have been to strengthen U.S. alliances across the Atlantic and Pacific and to develop a transoceanic latticework that binds them all together.
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Dec 26, 2024 | 
cfr.org | Joshua Kurlantzick
With the sudden collapse of the al-Assad regime in Syria, after thirteen years of civil war and the seeming triumph of government forces, analysts and fighters in other long running civil wars are wondering whether their country could be next.
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
worldpoliticsreview.com | Joshua Kurlantzick
During his term in office from 2016 to 2022, former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was best known for his brutal “war on drugs,” which became a license for massive extrajudicial killings of drug addicts and dealers, as well as many people with no connections to drugs at all. An investigation by the International Criminal Court into the campaign and Duterte’s role in it put the number of civilian casualties at between 12,000 and 30,000.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Joshua Kurlantzick
As the relationship between the United States and China continues to deteriorate, and with the looming return of former President Donald Trump to the White House promising the possibility of further escalation, countries in Southeast Asia are increasingly worried about having to choose between the two giants. But with the exception of the Philippines, none of the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN, want to explicitly align with the United States.
