Join us on 26 August 2022 for a hybrid seminar on What Can #Indonesia’s G20 Presidency And #ASEAN Chairmanship Deliver On Global Food Security?
This seminar is supported by Embassy of The Republic of Indonesia in Singapore.
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Khairulanwar Zaini - China’s strategy of “flooding the zone” early with its vaccines has somewhat succeeded ... iseas.edu.sg/articles-comme
#China #ChinaSouthEastAsia #Covid19
Fulcrum Commentary by Michael Schaper and - Helping the world’s smallest businesses to deal with #climatechange might hold the key to a complete solution for global warming. fulcrum.sg/small-business
#SMEs #Environment #SustainableDevelopment
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Fulcrum Commentary by - #PartiKeadilanRakyat, the political party of #AnwarIbrahim, has a new slate of leaders in place. To make a difference, #PKR will need to find a balance between pragmatism and the need to uphold multiracialism.
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Join us from 15 - 16 August for an interactive dialogue on MILLENNIAL DISRUPTIONS: Understanding the Role of #Indonesian #Millennials in Shaping a Rapidly Changing World, co-organized by ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute and .
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Fulcrum Commentary by Choi Shing Kwok - Critics have pilloried the Group of Seven’s Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment for its lack of scale and tardiness. But Southeast Asian countries should welcome an alternative source of capital...
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Fulcrum Commentary by - China’s “Asian way” is an all-embracing idea and a coded language to discredit other countries’ actions that are deemed harmful to China’s strategic interests. fulcrum.sg/building-peace
#China #SouthChinaSea #ChinaForeignPolicy
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Fulcrum Commentary by Sithanonxay Suvannaphakdy - Digital identification could be a silver bullet to increase tax revenues for ASEAN governments while pulling the region’s poorest out of poverty by redistributing wealth. fulcrum.sg/promoting-incl
#ASEAN
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Michael Schaper - Time and again, surveys show that #SME owner-operators prefer to get their information from peers, friends, family and local business organisations. This is followed by third-party professional advisers. Governments usually come last.
Fulcrum Commentary by and Laura Lee - India has the opportunity to boost its soft power in #ASEAN, including by promoting and sharing its lauded ‘frugal innovations’ to help low-income Southeast Asians to improve their lives. fulcrum.sg/frugal-innovat
#ASEANIndia
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Fulcrum: Pauline Leong - There is an increasing need for content moderation on social media, which puts pressure on regional governments and tech companies to reach new understandings about mediating online content to serve the political and social good.
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Fulcrum Commentary by David Arase - Shinzo Abe learned that Japan’s security did not lie in its military, but Japan’s good citizenship in a free-trading rules-based order. Southeast Asia was central to his pursuit of a free and open Indo-Pacific.
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.Su Mon Thazin Aung and Nan Lwin - In the weeks and months that followed the coup, China’s mixed messages resulted in differing understandings of Beijing’s position vis-à-vis the new State Administrative Council junta. iseas.edu.sg/articles-comme
#Myanmar #China #ChinaMyanmar
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Commentary by Daljit Singh: Beijing’s recent moves to establish security cooperation with Pacific Island states have riled the U.S. and Australia. ASEAN needs to watch the ongoing great power competition there closely to draw lessons for its own security.
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Fulcrum Commentary by Lee Sue-Ann - The race for #Indonesia’s 2024 presidential #elections remains wide open. Among the top three contenders, #AniesBaswedan is the one with the most options.
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Fulcrum Commentary by - #TimorLeste hopes to become a fully-fledged ASEAN member in 2023 when Indonesia takes over as ASEAN Chair. #ASEAN should allow its admission, even if embracing this newest member...might prove to be uncomfortable.
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Join us on 5 August 2022 for a webinar on “What Does Federal Democracy Mean for Myanmar?” to be delivered by .
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#Myanmar
Join us for a discussion on Freedom of the Press in Thailand with and on 3 August 2022.
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#Thailand
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Fulcrum Commentary by - There was no mention of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership when the foreign ministers of India and ASEAN met in New Delhi last month. fulcrum.sg/india-asean-re
#IndiaASEAN #ASEAN #RCEP
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Fulcrum Commentary by Phan Xuan Dung and - Hanoi has been promoting the concept of ‘bamboo diplomacy’ to define its foreign policy of independence and refusal to take sides in international disputes. fulcrum.sg/whats-behind-v
#Vietnam #CommunistPartyofVietnam
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Call for papers on Energy & Decarbonisation in Southeast Asia. Closing on 26 August. Check out the details -> iseas.edu.sg/mec-events/cal
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Fulcrum Commentary by - #UMNO President Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has publicly argued that Malaysia should return to the old order with UMNO as the singular dominant party and #BarisanNasional ruling with two-thirds majority. fulcrum.sg/malaysia-must-
#Malaysia
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Fulcrum Commentary by - President Jokowi’s recent Cabinet picks may not necessarily be the best persons to do their jobs. It seems the President may have prioritised consolidating power instead. fulcrum.sg/has-jokowis-re
#Indonesia #IndonesiaPolitics
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ISEAS Perspective by Robert Beckman - The US has not become a party to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (#UNCLOS) despite the overwhelming support for US accession... iseas.edu.sg/articles-comme
#FONOPS #SouthChinaSea #UnitedStates
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Fulcrum Commentary by - The commodities supply crunch can disrupt Southeast Asia’s goal of attaining net-zero targets in the next few decades. fulcrum.sg/can-the-russia
#RussiaUkraine #Carbon #ClimateChange #Energy #ASEAN
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Join us on 21 July 2022 for Special Discussion: An Update on ASEAN’s Efforts in Myanmar, a webinar organised by the .
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#ASEAN #Myanmar
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Join us on 25 July 2022 for a webinar to be delivered by on Human Rights in Myanmar Before and After the 2021 Coup.
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Fulcrum Commentary by David Arase - China has doubled down on its alignment with Russia against the West. This has led to a proliferation of minilaterals and security partnerships aligned with the United States. fulcrum.sg/chinas-global-
#ASEAN #ChinaUS #IndoPacific #GSI
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Fulcrum Commentary by - Recent speculation that Vietnam’s richest man, #Vingroup chairman #PhamNhatVuong, might get in trouble with the authorities is probably overwrought. fulcrum.sg/will-vietnams-
#Vietnam #VietnamEconomy
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ISEAS Perspective by Lili Yan Ing, and - The call made by the G20 under Indonesia’s presidency for urgent global action to make #DigitalTransformation more equitable is timely. iseas.edu.sg/articles-comme
#Indonesia #G20
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. - Indonesia's G20 Presidency has set three priorities: global health infrastructure, digital economic transformation and energy transition. However, due to food and fuel price hikes, global food security is rising up the G20 agenda.
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Join us on 28 - 29 July 2022 for a hybrid conference at ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute on Covid-19 in Southeast Asia, 2020-2022: Restriction, Relief, Recovery. This conference is supported by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung .
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Fulcrum Commentary by Joanne Lin - Indonesia's various moves on the foreign policy front suggest that it is preparing for a robust role as ASEAN Chair when it takes over the regional grouping's leadership in 2023. fulcrum.sg/can-indonesia-
#Indonesia #ASEAN
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ISEAS Perspective by Aung Tun - Following intense warfare between the Arakan Army and Myanmar’s military in recent years, Rakhine State has arguably become the region of the country to make the most promising progress towards greater autonomy. iseas.edu.sg/articles-comme
#Myanmar
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Fulcrum Commentary - There are indications that the relationship between Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and the National Awakening Party (PKB) is tense. fulcrum.sg/the-politics-o
#Indonesia #PoliticalIslam
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Join us on 22 July 2022, Friday, for the webinar 'Vietnam - India Comprehensive Strategic Partnership: Real Significance or False Promise?' with speakers and Pham Cao Cuong.
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Fulcrum commentary by - While it is too early for his foreign policy platform to fully emerge, the Philippines' new president will have his hands full in calibrating Manila’s relationships with Washington and Beijing. fulcrum.sg/the-china-fact
#Philippines #China
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Termsak Chalermpalanupap - Thai Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-ocha and most of the 10 ministers in his government facing a no-confidence motion are in no danger of losing the vote in the House of Representatives set for the third week of July.
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