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Hagel Set for Vietnam Embrace as Wary Asia Eyes Rising China
www.bloomberg.com-May 31, 2013
When Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel served in Southeast Asia as a U.S. Army sergeant, Nguyen Tan Dung fought to expel him and other American troops from Vietnam.
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Clinton arrives in Burma to assess progress on reforms
www.washingtonpost.com-November 30, 2011
Hillary Rodham Clinton touched down on Wednesday in the desolate new capital of Burma, becoming the first U.S. secretary of state to visit the authoritarian country in more than half a century.
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Chinese-funded hydropower project sparks anger in Burma
www.washingtonpost.com-November 08, 2011
After five years of cozy cooperation with Burma’s ruling generals, China Power Investment Corp. got a shock in September when it sent a senior executive to Naypyidaw, this destitute Southeast Asian nation’s showcase capital, a Pharaonic sprawl of empty eight-lane highways and cavernous government buildings.
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Growing U.S. Role in South China Sea
www.csis.org-October 11, 2011
The South China Sea--a zone of conflict between China, Southeast Asian nations, and the United States--appears, on the surface, to have quieted down over the past six months. China and five other nations claim parts of the South China Sea, which has strategic significance and potentially sizable petroleum deposits.
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Vietnamese Are Still Haunted By War's Missing
www.washingtonpost.com-October 10, 2011
Nhinh Vu, a sergeant fighting for South Vietnam, moved his wife and three children to the perceived safety of Saigon in March 1975. He then headed back to his barracks in Dalat.
A month later, Saigon fell and the Vietnam War ended. His family never saw Vu again.
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Engaging Laos: Strategic Part of the ASEAN Puzzle
www.csis.org-September 29, 2011
In July 2010, Lao deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs Thongloun Sisoulith paid an official visit to Washington. He was and remains the highest-ranking Lao official to visit Washington since the communist takeover in 1975. During his visit he invited Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to reciprocate with a stop in Vientiane.
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In South China Sea, a dispute over energy
www.washingtonpost.com-September 18, 2011
When China’s largest offshore petroleum producer launched a $1 billion oil rig this summer from Shanghai, Lt. Gen. Juancho Sabban, the commander of Philippine military forces 1,500 miles away in the South China Sea, began preparing for trouble.
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Enter the Cambodians
www.csis.org-September 14, 2011
It is time American senior officials got to know their way around Phnom Penh.
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Myanmar: The Next Failed State?
www.cfr.org-August 26, 2011
Along the country's northern and eastern borders, the central government's laws and policies are routinely ignored. Ethnic minority militias roam large swaths of territory, skirmishing with the government's army, the battles often leaving entire villages in ruins, burnt to the ground.
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Thailand’s New Government
www.csis.org-August 12, 2011
Thailand’s new 35-member cabinet was sworn in on August 9. The team is led by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, the country’s first female leader. Twenty-nine members of the cabinet are members of Yingluck’s victorious Puea Thai Party. Four belong to political parties that joined the prime minister’s coalition, and two are outsiders.
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