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Tag: ASEAN

Myanmar military ruler to attend ASEAN summit in Jakarta

19 April 2021 Online editor In the news

Thailand has announced that the head of Myanmar’s military government, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, will attend an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Indonesia on 24 April 2021.

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Diplomatic efforts intensify as protestors are killed in Myanmar

2 March 2021 Online editor In the news

Diplomatic efforts and international pressure intensify as tensions appear to increase in the Myanmar crisis, with casualties reported as the military continue attempts to disperse protestors.

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ASEAN: central to whose vision for the Indo-Pacific?

24 February 2021 Mike Scrafton Australian focus, International relations

Australia places ASEAN “at the heart of our vision for the Indo-Pacific”. But a powerful dynamic, unrelated to the Indo-Pacific concept, is drawing ASEAN countries closer to China. In future, Southeast Asia may at best be neutral, or may possibly be more closely aligned with China. ASEAN could then be central to China’s “vision”.

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China and Brexit drive the UK’s Indo-Pacific ‘tilt’ (Bill Hayton)

28 November 2020 Online editor Analysis and comment, Foreign policy, trade and diplomacy

Chatham House’s Bill Hayton looks at the UK’s ’tilt’ to the Indo-Pacific – involving trade, military presence and diplomatic efforts, concluding that the overall effect is likely to embed the UK in the Indo-Pacific as a valuable partner for those countries which value a free and open international order.

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What happens now the RCEP trade deal has been signed?

16 November 2020 Online editor In the news

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RECP) agreement: Fifteen Asia-Pacific economies have signed what could become the world’s largest free trade agreement, covering nearly a third of the global population and about 30% of its global gross domestic product.

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Asia-pacific trade deal covering 29% of world’s GDP expected to be signed shortly

10 November 2020 Online editor In the news

It is reported that the world’s largest trade pact involving 15 countries in the Asia Pacific – which account for 29% of global gross domestic product – is expected to be signed during a virtual leaders summit to be held on 15 November 2020.

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  • The Chinese ‘Debt Trap’ Is a Myth 8 February 2021
  • National Cyber Power Index 2020: which is the world’s most powerful cyber nation? (Belfer Center) 12 September 2020
  • America’s proposed Taiwan Policy Act could be a game-changing act of provocation 20 September 2022

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