Welcome to the 51st issue of the CEEasia Briefing. In this issue, we dissect the following topics: EU’s investigation into TikTok Taiwan’s VP visits Czechia Sales of Slovak and Czech weaponry to Southeast Asia India signs FTA with European states Montenegro’s spat with China over Taiwan If you like what you see, please forward this… Continue reading CEEasia Briefing #51: EU’s investigation into TikTok, Taiwan’s VP visits Czechia, Sales of Slovak and Czech weaponry to Southeast Asia
The nations of the region are all experiencing shrinking workforces and rising life expectancy – in some cases at the same time. In October, The Economist ran an article with the headline, “Poor Asian countries face an aging crisis.” A regular reader of the region’s newspapers will probably get a sense of a looming demographic problem when… Continue reading What Do We Mean When We Talk About Southeast Asia’s Demographics ‘Crisis’?
In September 2021, the European Union (EU) released its very first Indo-Pacific strategy. While its assessment of the current geostrategic and geo-economic challenges is highly accurate (notably if read together with the EU’s 2019 China strategy), the Indo-Pacific strategy has been criticised for lacking specific means of implementation. Since then, the EU has been promoting… Continue reading Global Gateway Initiative: Infrastructure Cooperation With Souhteast Asia
Opposition parties should take a page out of the ruling CPP’s book and begin a process of generational renewal. In April, Cambodia’s former Prime Minister Hun Sen will end his eight-month sabbatical. After resigning from his position as prime minister last year, after almost four decades in the job, to make way for his eldest… Continue reading Cambodia’s Opposition Needs to Take a Sabbatical
Washington ought to be doing more to attract the region’s best and brightest. It’s not something that any U.S. administration would make too much noise about for fear of inflaming its domestic audience, especially as it’s likely to be the biggest stick with which the Republicans will strike the Biden administration come November’s presidential elections.… Continue reading In Southeast Asia, the US Should Talk Loudly About Immigration
