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Jan 7, 2025 | 
tribunecontentagency.com | Le Nhu Mai
Nearly one year after their last bilateral talks, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his counterpart Cho Tae-yul met once again on January 6, but in a completely different atmosphere. This time, Washington’s key ally in the Indo-Pacific is wracked by an unprecedented political crisis triggered by President Yoon Suk-yeol’s short-lived declaration of martial law on December 3, 2024.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
thediplomat.com | Le Nhu Mai
Nearly one year after their last bilateral talks, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his counterpart Cho Tae-yul met once again on January 6, but in a completely different atmosphere. This time, Washington’s key ally in the Indo-Pacific is wracked by an unprecedented political crisis triggered by President Yoon Suk-yeol’s short-lived declaration of martial law on December 3, 2024.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
thediplomat.com | Le Nhu Mai
This week, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong made an important three-stop trip to Laos, Japan, and South Korea on July 26-30. She attended ASEAN-related meetings in Vientiane while joining her U.S., Japanese and Indian counterparts at the eighth Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Tokyo.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Bec Strating |Elena Collinson |Vithoureakborndidh Chou |Le Nhu Mai
The 2024 ASEAN–Australia special summit held in Melbourne in March 2024 celebrates 50 years since Australia became ASEAN’s first Dialogue Partner. This was the biggest foreign policy event of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s government held on Australian soil to date, reflecting the importance the government places on enhancing relations with Southeast Asia.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Faizal bin Yahya |Yuhan Zhang |Vithoureakborndidh Chou |Le Nhu Mai
In 2023, four of the five most globally valuable companies are based on a platform business model linked to online business activities, creating digital communities and marketplaces. These allow diverse groups to interact and transact, enabling companies to grow exponentially and acquire significant market shares from established firms.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Le Nhu Mai |Shiro Armstrong |Kelly A. Grieco |Agatha Bagus Ilhamy
Indonesia’s incoming president and vice-president Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka have set an ambitious tax plan to increase their country’s ratio of tax revenue to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to 23 per cent from its current level of just over 10 per cent. To realise this political promise, radical reforms to Indonesia’s tax system are necessary.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Martin Weiser |Malene Jensen |Le Nhu Mai |Tae Yeon Eom
In the lead-up to South Korea’s general elections on 10 April 2024, the country is at the forefront of a global conversation about the interplay between artificial intelligence (AI) and democracy. This represents a critical juncture, where the potential for technology to transform democratic engagement intersects with the imperative to protect electoral integrity.
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Mar 30, 2024 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Martin Weiser |Malene Jensen |Le Nhu Mai |Anthony Rinna
North Korea deleted a large portion of its online presence in January 2024, with eight of its websites going offline along with most of its social media accounts. This followed a speech by North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un during an important party plenum in late December 2023 where he declared that unification with South Korea was impossible. The scope of this deletion only slowly made headlines in South Korea due to the comprehensive censorship of North Korean websites and social media accounts.
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Mar 29, 2024 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Le Nhu Mai |Anthony Rinna |Chhay Lin Lim |Vithoureakborndidh Chou
On 6 February 2024, the US Senate confirmed Kurt Campbell as the next US Deputy Secretary of State, replacing Wendy Sherman, who retired after serving nearly three decades in the US foreign service. His appointment signals President Joe Biden’s attempt to shift focus away from the Middle East and Ukraine towards the Indo-Pacific, a region the United States identified as home to its pacing threat, China.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
tribunecontentagency.com | Le Nhu Mai
On March 18, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and his South Korean counterpart met for the second time in under a month. This time, Blinken is on a three-stop trip to Vienna, Seoul, and Manila from March 14 to 20. In Seoul, he led the U.S. delegation to attend the ministerial segment of the third Summit for Democracy (S4D) hosted by the Yoon Suk-yeol administration.
