Ben Bland
Director, Asia-Pacific @ChathamHouse. Ex @LowyInstitute in ๐ฆ๐บ & @FT in ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐ป๐ณ ๐ญ๐ฐ ๐จ๐ณ. Author:๐Man of Contradictions & ๐Generation HK. @BrentfordFC fan
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Good to see Marise Payne meeting with ASEAN counterparts on Tuesday and pledging more pandemic help for ASEAN, as well as the existing bilateral aid to SE Asian partners. But Canbe...
Some time in the last couple of months, the Hong Kong govt updated its Basic Law website to insert the Chinese Constitution into its PDF version of the Basic Law, coming before the...
What will Southeast Asia look like in 2035? Making broad, long-term predictions is a fraught exercise. But it is a useful way to re-examine our underlying assumptions and think lat...
Two recent @ISEAS analyses on Vietnam's Communist Party highlight key differences with China's Communist Party, (both claim to be "as close as lips and teeth"). Interesting to comp...
THREAD If you're concerned about Covid-19 in Indonesia, watch @MataNajwa grill Jokowi. Some highlights/analysis: he seems to reject mainstream evidence on lockdowns. "Show me which...