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CSIS – Southeast Asia Report – Nov 17, 2016

Engaging Southeast Asia in a Time of Flux

By Amy Searight, Senior Adviser and Director, Southeast Asia Program (@SoutheastAsiaDC), CSIS

Welcome to our rebooted Southeast Asia from Scott Circle newsletter. The newsletter will continue to bring you commentary about U.S. engagement with Southeast Asia and highlights of key developments in the region on a biweekly basis. We are also consolidating our SitRep announcements and program highlights into this one regular update.

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South-east Asia needs a reset on trade deals

Sanchita Basu Das For The Straits Times
Published – Nov 17, 2016, 5:00 am SGT

Cargo being unloaded at the Port of Manila. With globalisation, a macroeconomic instability in one country is felt around the world, such as during the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, when South-east Asian countries suffered declines in international trade. PHOTO: EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY

Since the early 2000s, countries in South-east Asia have seen a plethora of trade pacts.

Singapore signed a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with New Zealand in 2000. Soon, others like Malaysia and Thailand got in on the act.

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“One Belt, One Road:” What’s in It For Us?

CSIS – By Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. 07 Nov. 2016

Remarks to a Workshop of the China Maritime Studies Institute

Beipanjiang Highway Bridge in Guizhou province, China (Photo by Glabb / Wikimedia Commons)

Alexander the Great is said to have declared that “logisticians are a humorless lot … they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay.” He was the one of the first strategists to understand the importance of connectivity and also to point out that there are not a lot of jokes about it. The speed and reliability of transport and other forms of communication matter greatly to economic efficiency as well as to war.

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Vietnam Film Industry

VIETNAM – DateThursday, October 13, 2016 at 6:53AM

Despite being torn apart by the devastation of two separate aggressor invasions and often finding its artisans hamstrung by censorship and bureacracy, the 100 year-old Vietnamese film community has forged a strong brand and unique voice within the global cinema community.

(Picture, above: Tôi thay hoa vàng trên co xanh; Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass, 2015) 

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Energy Investments In A Transitioning World

Energy Investments In A Transitioning World

29 January 2016, IEA Staff PortraitsIEA, Paris, France Photo: IEA/Michael Dean

The ECOreport interviews Laszlo Varro, Chief Economist of the International Energy Agency (IEA) about energy investments in a transitioning world

By Roy L Hales

Though most of the world’s energy investments are still in fossil  fuels, their iron grip is weakening. The largest source of power investment was the $313 billion put into alternate energy sources like wind and solar. According to Laszlo Varro, Chief Economist of the International Energy Agency (IEA), last year there were more renewables coming online than the entire growth of the energy sector. In many developing countries, wind and solar are less expensive than using imported gas to produce electricity. Laszlo Varro, Chief Economist of the International Energy Agency, described energy investments as the world transitions to a low carbon economy.

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China’s Xi Jinping and Donald Trump speak after election win

By Euan McKirdy, CNN

Susan Rice: American Leadership in the Asia-Pacific Must Continue

National Interest


“Unmatched American leadership has laid a strong foundation for regional peace and prosperity in the region. But, in a dangerous and uncertain world, we cannot relinquish that leadership.”

Susan E. Rice – November 12, 2016

Seven years ago, President Obama joined the leaders of 20 other economies for the APEC summit in Singapore—his first trip to Asia as president. When President Obama took office, the global economy was still reeling from the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. The United States was consumed with two major, costly ground wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but not nearly as engaged in the world’s fastest growing region, the Asia-Pacific.

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