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Today’s issue includes the following commentaries and citations attributed to ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute and its researchers. You can click on the links to go to the articles directly.
- No. 13: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
- No. 14: A’an Suryana, Visiting Fellow
- No. 32: Faris Ridzuan, Research Officer, and Sharifah Afra Binte Syed Farid Alatas, Research Officer
- No. 52: Wang Zheng, former Wang Gungwu Visiting Fellow
- No. 61: Southeast Asia Climate Outlook: 2021 Survey Report
- No. 62: Serina Rahman, Visiting Fellow
Brunei | Cambodia | Indonesia | Laos | Malaysia | Myanmar | Philippines | Singapore | Thailand | Timor-Leste | Vietnam | ASEAN / Southeast Asia | Asia Pacific | East / South China Sea | Climate Change/Environment | Others
Cambodia
1. Policy, Guns and Money: Cambodia’s strategic perspective, Australia–India ties and the ADF’s energy needs
[A 37-minute podcast]
Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 27 June 2022
2. The geopolitical realities of Ream Naval Base
Charissa Yong
Straits Times, 27 June 2022
3. CPP wins, CP 2nd as 5th Commune/Sangkat Council Election results announced
Khmer Times, 26 June 2022
4. Rebooting Cambodia’s casino city
Tan Hui Yee
Straits Times, 25 June 2022
5. Turning around U.S.-Cambodia Relations with Sophal Ear and Charles Dunst
[36-minute Podcast]
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) (United States), 23 June 2022
Indonesia
6. Opposition parties look to ruling coalition for 2024
Yerica Lai and Dio Suhenda
Jakarta Post, 27 June 2022
7. Megawati takes time on presidential nomination
Yerica Lai
Jakarta Post, 27 June 2022
8. Analis Sebut Anies Sedang Di-framing Politik Identitas [Analyst says Anies is being framed for identity politics]
Republika, 27 June 2022
9. Habibie Sebagai Jawaban Kehausan Indonesia [Habibie as the answer to Indonesia’s thirst (for achievement)]
Republika, 27 June 2022
10. Can Jokowi’s new trade minister Zulkifli Hasan fix Indonesia’s cooking oil crisis?
Dedi Dinarto
South China Morning Post, 26 June 2022
11. Indonesia president support group Projo to back candidate who continues Jokowi’s legacy
Linda Yulisman
Straits Times, 26 June 2022
12. Voters more loyal to figures than parties, survey finds
Dio Suhenda
Jakarta Post, 24 June 2022
13. ST Deep Dive: Asean and India, a Cabinet shuffle in Indonesia
[Link to Indonesia’s Cabinet Reshuffle: Rewarding Loyalty and Consolidating Power]
Straits Times, 24 June 2022
14. Indonesia’s campaign against Islamists is a ploy to silence critics
Economist, 23 June 2022
Malaysia
15. Pew survey: Half of Malaysians view Russia positively, with six in 10 feeling Putin ‘doing the right thing’ in world affairs
[Link to International Attitudes Toward the U.S., NATO and Russia in a Time of Crisis]
Zurairi A.R.
Malay Mail Online, 27 June 2022
16. Finance minister: Bantuan Keluarga Malaysia cash aid totalling RM8b is largest in country’s history
Malay Mail Online, 27 June 2022
17. Pakatan: Government should cut expenses, not subsidies, to help Malaysians with rising prices
R. Loheswar
Malay Mail Online, 27 June 2022
18. Food insecurity: Learn from past policy failures — Rais Hussin, Margarita Peredaryenko and Ameen Kamal
Malay Mail Online, 27 June 2022
19. What is Umno’s Plan B?
Wong Chin Huat
Malaysiakini, 27 June 2022
20. GE15 should have been held by now, says ex-EC chairman
Mohd Farhan Darwis
Malaysian Insight, 27 June 2022
21. PM’s inaction over Zuraida’s cabinet post not a sign of weakness, say analysts
Diyana Ibrahim
Malaysian Insight, 27 June 2022
22. Tajuddin’s sacking points to rift’
Adib Povera
New Straits Times, 27 June 2022
23. Warisan ready to work with winning coalition in GE15 to ensure stability
Bernama, 26 June 2022
24. Legal action should be taken against betrayal involving Batu Puteh – Onn Hafiz
Bernama, 26 June 2022
25. MP SPEAKS | Where has Malaysia’s nation-building gone wrong?
Lim Kit Siang
Malaysiakini, 26 June 2022
26. PM and Umno president on collision course?
Joceline Tan
Star, 26 June 2022
27. Umno seeks united front as polls loom
Shannon Teoh
Straits Times, 26 June 2022
28. Govt to pay attention on four ACCCIM proposals for Budget 2023
R. Loheswar
Bernama, 25 June 2022
29. Enforcing ‘proper’ use of Bahasa Malaysia with penalties ‘unfortunate’, say linguists
Aminah Farid
Malaysian Insight, 25 June 2022
30. Umno, undi Melayu dan PRU15 [Umno, Malay votes and GE-15]
Saiful Bahar
Malaysian Insight, 25 June 2022
31. Penang CM seeks strong mandate
Joceline Tan
Star, 25 June 2022
32. Bon Odori – a dance-off between revivalism and multiculturalism in Malaysia
[This is an edited version of an article first published in Fulcrum]
Faris Ridzuan and Afra Alatas
Straits Times, 25 June 2022
33. Mahathir’s comment on reclaiming Singapore aimed at Johor sultan: Analysts
Ram Anand
Straits Times, 25 June 2022
Myanmar
34. Teachers in Myanmar caught in crossfire as conflict rages
Radio Free Asia, 25 June 2022
35. Kachin public calls on KIO to address gold mining crisis
Emily Fishbein, Jauman Naw, Jaw Tu Hkawng and Nu Nu Lusan
Frontier Myanmar, 24 June 2022
36. Interview: Military is Weaker Since Coup and Momentum is With the Armed Resistance
[Link to 91-page PDF report: One Year On – The Momentum of Myanmar’s Armed Rebellion]
Irrawaddy, 24 June 2022
37. Myanmar Junta Sends Aung San Suu Kyi to Solitary Confinement
Richard C. Paddock
New York Times, 24 June 2022
38. Arrests in Rakhine raise fears of renewed conflict between military, Arakan Army
Radio Free Asia, 24 June 2022
Philippines
39. Number one adviser’: Philippine first lady to play key role
AFP
Channel News Asia, 27 June 2022
40. China looks to Bongbong Marcos to revive oil exploration talks
Dj Yap, Tina G. Santos
Inquirer, 27 June 2022
41. From Duterte to Marcos Jr: a forum
New Mandala, 27 June 2022
42. Philippines’ Duterte leaves brutal legacy in presidency marked by drug war, US-China policy flip-flops
Raissa Robles
South China Morning Post, 25 June 2022
43. What Can Be Learned From Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s First Weeks in Office?
Joshua Kurlantzick
Council on Foreign Relations, 24 June 2022
44. Philippines Nixes Joint Maritime Resource Exploration Talks With China
Sebastian Strangio
Diplomat, 24 June 2022
Thailand
45. Biodiversity ‘under threat’
Pratch Rujivanarom
Bangkok Post, 27 June 2022
46. Thaksin Family Scion Is Top Choice of Thais in Survey for PM Job
Thomas Kutty Abraham
Bloomberg, 26 June 2022
47. Thais say ‘soft power’ can drive recovery but govt asleep at wheel
Nation, 25 June 2022
Vietnam
48. Regions, sub-regions must be linked for development
VietNamNet, 26 June 2022
49. Vietnam Communist Party head says officials in bribery scandal apologized
Radio Free Asia, 24 June 2022
50. Vietnam’s human rights record is poor but improving, HRMI says
Radio Free Asia, 24 June 2022
ASEAN/Southeast Asia
51. 韩国“新南方政策”正转向2.0版？[South Korea’s “New Southern Policy” is moving to version 2.0?]
笪志刚是黑龙江省社科院东北亚研究所所长、研究员
Huanqiu 环球网, 27 June 2022
52. How China uses party diplomacy to win influence in Southeast Asia
[This article was originally published as ‘China’s Pragmatic Party Diplomacy in Southeast Asia’, on ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute’s commentary site fulcrum.sg.]
Wang Zheng
South China Morning Post, 25 June 2022
53. Can Asean change the narrative in the Indo-Pacific?
Endy Bayuni
Straits Times, 25 June 2022
54. Quad’s Maritime Domain Awareness Initiative Needs Time to Deliver
Shruti Pandalai and Abhay Kumar Singh
Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, 24 June 2022
55. ASEAN’s Renewable Energy: Go for Country Advantage
Gilang Kembara , Emiranzala Kisyanto
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 24 June 2022
56. ASEAN strengthens Defence Cooperation for COVID-19 Recovery and Solidarity for a Harmonised Security
ASEAN Secretariat News, 23 June 2022
Asia Pacific
57. Biden’s Asia Visit Sets a Baseline for US Engagement with the Indo Pacific
Michael Mazza
AEI, 24 June 2022
East/South China Sea
58. South China Sea: What could go wrong?
Mark Valencia
Asia Times, 25 June 2022
59. The truth behind China’s fishing ban in the South China Sea
Mahbi Maulaya
Asia & the Pacific Policy Society, 24 June 2022
Climate Change/Environment
60. Malaysia’s $30bn wealth fund to stand by carbon-emitting state companies
Oliver Telling
Financial Times, 26 June 2022
61. ASEAN vulnerable to climate change impacts
Rokiah Mahmud
Borneo Bulletin, 25 June 2022
62. ‘In 10 years, we may no longer be here’: Johor’s Orang Seletar threatened by dwindling seafood catch
Amir Yusof
Channel News Asia, 25 June 2022
63. Energy prices are causing chaos in Asia. Here’s why the rest of the world should worry
Tara Subramaniam
CNN, 25 June 2022
64. Thailand signs world’s first country-to-country carbon offsetting pact
Nation, 25 June 2022
65. The Geopolitics of Renewable Energy
Niharika Tagotra
The National Bureau of Asian Research, 25 June 2022
66. Inside Asia’s Floating Solar Panels Boom
Eric Koons
Energy Tracker Asia, 24 June 2022
67. Indonesia delays carbon tax implementation again, 1 week before enactment
Vincent Fabian Thomas
Jakarta Post, 24 June 2022
68. The EU’s Carbon Border Tax Could Hurt Developing Countries
Miriam González Durántez And Calli Obern
Project Syndicate, 24 June 2022
69. Asia’s Banks Push the Region Towards Fossil Gas Future
[Link to 36-page PDF document: Financing A Fossil Future – Tracing The Money Pipeline Of Fossil Gas In Southeast Asia]
Viktor Tachev
Energy Tracker Asia, 23 June 2022
Others
70. G7 Aims to Raise $600 Billion to Counter China’s Belt and Road
Andrea Shalal
Reuters, 27 June 2022
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