Foreign Policy Essay
Bangsamoro Peace and the U.S.-Philippines Alliance
Brian Harding, Haroro J. Ingram Sun, Sep 11, 2022, 10:01 AM
Supporting the peace process in Mindanao will help shift Manila’s focus toward China.
Latest in Philippines
UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)
The South China Sea Arbitration Award Five Years Later
Sourabh Gupta Tue, Aug 3, 2021, 2:42 PM
The tribunal in Philippines v. China made four sweeping observations that are worth examining five years after the award.
Foreign Fighters
Southeast Asia’s Overlooked Foreign Fighter Problem
Emma Broches Fri, Jun 5, 2020, 11:59 AM
Worries about foreign Islamic fighters tend to center on European citizens. But fighters from Southeast Asia also pose a significant problem.
Coronavirus
U.S.-China Rivalry After COVID-19: Clues and Early Indications from Southeast Asia
Jonathan Stromseth Thu, May 21, 2020, 9:00 AM
Both the United States and China have lost credibility from their responses to the crisis.
Biodefense
ChinaTalk: Coronastories Volume 2: Philippines, Russia, Taiwan
Jordan Schneider Fri, Apr 24, 2020, 4:59 PM
We're continuing our Coronastories series this week with personal reflections and analysis from friends of ChinaTalk on the current situations in the Philippines (despotism), Russia (hunger and looming economic collapse), and Taiwan (cell phone movement tracing).
Social Media
The Philippines Deserves More From Facebook
Henry Mihm, Ines Oulamine, Fiona Singer Sun, Oct 27, 2019, 2:00 PM
Editor’s note: This article grew out of work done in our Georgetown University class on national security and social media. The class tackled an array of questions related to how hate groups exploit social media, exploring issues ranging from privacy and human rights concerns to technological and legal barriers. Working in teams, students conducted independent research that addressed a difficult issue in this problem space. —Dan Byman & Chris Meserole
Water Wars
Water Wars: Drill, Maybe, Drill
Sean Quirk Mon, Oct 7, 2019, 8:32 AM
China and Vietnam are poised for confrontation over oil drilling in the southwestern portion of the South China Sea. Vietnam alleges that a Chinese survey vessel, Haiyang Dizhi 8, has been conducting an oil and gas survey within Vietnam’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) since July 2019.
Water Wars
Water Wars: A Song of Oil and Fire
Doug Stephens, IV Fri, Aug 30, 2019, 8:00 AM
A tense standoff in the waters southwest of Vietnam is about to enter its seventh week. Throughout May and June, Chinese Coast Guard vessels aggressively patrolled around Malaysian and Vietnamese oil drilling platforms.
SinoTech
U.S. Social Media Companies Block Accounts From China Over Hong Kong Disinformation
Rachel Brown, Preston Lim Thu, Aug 29, 2019, 3:14 PM
Twitter, Facebook, and Google Block Accounts Over Hong Kong Disinformation Campaign
Foreign Policy Essay
Revisiting Marawi: Women and the Struggle Against the Islamic State in the Philippines
Kiriloi M. Ingram Sun, Aug 4, 2019, 10:00 AM
Editor’s Note: The Islamic State’s crimes against women are well known, but it has also managed to appeal to women to join the fight directly or otherwise support the group. Too often, however, governments fail to recognize this risk. Kiriloi Ingram of the University of Queensland draws on her fieldwork in the Philippines to argue that governments and civil society groups need to do a far better job of recognizing the dangers women can pose while also empowering them to help counter violent extremism.
Daniel Byman
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