Stanford—Nearly 700 million people live in Southeast Asia. Insulting all of them in less than a minute seems an impossible task. But not for Pete Hegseth, the utterly unqualified Trump-appointed ...

Finally, participants generally agreed, these four countries are still optimistic that the United States will remain the major offshore balancing power in Southeast Asia. If the United States ...

As the world’s largest single provider of humanitarian aid, USAID last year allocated $860m to the region alone. The agency operates in six out of Southeast Asia’s 11 countries – Cambodia, Laos, ...

With the regional environment growing more uncertain by the day, ASEAN needs unity and cooperation more than ever to ensure ...

Threats by President Donald Trump's administration to shut down USAID, however, have had little impact on ...

The survey showed that China and the United States enjoyed high visibility in the Southeast ... partners in launching ...

U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington is urging the United States to pursue new trade agreements with Southeast Asia, the ...

Overall, Trump’s second-term foreign policy, defense, and economic appointments suggest that security issues will dominate in Asia, despite his grumbling about trade imbalances. In addition, they ...

As the new administration charts its foreign policy course, a stronger Central Asia-U.S. partnership can serve as a model for ...

Trump hates US trade deficits, loves US tariffs and is mostly indifferent, if not hostile, toward multilateral arrangements including ASEAN.