Author: Geoff Wade, ISEAS, Singapore

That US engagement with East Asia has grown in recent years is news to none.

But as the dust settles following President Obama’s announcement of the imminent stationing of US marine forces in northern Australia, it is perhaps time to assess what this development might augur for the broader East Asian region in the longer term. Read more…

Author: Geoff Wade

In 2010, as ASEAN celebrated the 43^rd year of its existence as a regional organisation, signs of its division became increasingly manifest.

Despite repeated urging for members to move towards the ASEAN Economic Community by 2015, it is becoming obvious that most of the mainland Southeast Asian states (CLMV) see their political and economic futures tied to China far more than to their insular Southeast Asian erstwhile brethren. Read more…