China’s reaction to the current economic crisis has been an odyssey of emotion, from denial to shock to anger to resolve. An early smug triumphalism among many Chinese at America’s big stumble gave way quickly to anxiety about its impact on China; then to anger...

As relations among India, Japan, and the United States have evolved gradually over the past decade, the three countries, at both official and unofficial levels, have begun to consider common interests and potential cooperation on a range of international issues. Indeed, the...

• Chan Heng Chee on "America's Place in Southeast Asia"
• November Timeline of Events and Events to Look For in December
• 16th Annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum
• Combating Piracy in Maritime Southeast...

The Southeast Asia Initiative of the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) hosted a conference on September 24-26, 2008, entitled "The United States and Southeast Asia: Toward a Strategy for Enhanced...

The Russia-Georgia clash poses major difficulties for Chinese foreign policy. China is trapped in a serious dilemma as to how Beijing should respond. Its coincidence with the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympics did not please the Chinese leaders, but Moscow’s...

• Djoko Susilo on Myanmar (Burma)
• October Timeline of Events
• Southeast Asia at the 7th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM)

The landmark success of India's moon launch in October 2008 has all eyes set on the Indian space program. India’s space program produces both satellites and launchers. The development-oriented missions of educational communications and remote sensing that were the...

As India and Japan prepare for their annual bilateral summit in Tokyo this week, a group of Indian, Japanese and American experts urged Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Taro Aso to deepen their bilateral cooperation and take leadership in stabilising the international...

Soon after the onset of the current global financial turmoil, Niall Ferguson declared the end of Chimerica, the symbiotic relationship between a productive China and a consumptive United States that aligned the world’s status quo power and its most significant...

Among the many pressing realities that will confront a new U.S. administration in January 2009—whether Republican or Democratic—is the need to manage the challenges and opportunities of a rising Asia. Growing trade and investment flows across the Pacific offer...

Sunni Muslim radicals, a violent and vocal minority, are responsible for the largest number of violent terrorist incidents in the world today. This trend is expected to continue for at least the next decade. South Asia, which is home to 28% of the world's Muslim population,...

The situation in Afghanistan has been deteriorating for nearly half a decade, and is now reaching a crisis level. Secretary Gates and Admiral Mullen have acknowledged that it is now an Afghan-Pakistan conflict, and one lacking in both military and civilian resources. It is...