China’s Education Outreach in Malaysia: Need for Tact and Trust
Peter T. C. Chang
China’s outreach into Malaysia’s education sector needs to be mindful of the country’s delicate social fabric.

Peter T. C. Chang
China’s outreach into Malaysia’s education sector needs to be mindful of the country’s delicate social fabric.
Xue Song|Brice Tseen Fu Lee
In higher education, China and Southeast Asia enjoy a symbiotic relationship.
Ian Storey
Malaysia’s position on the South China Sea dispute vis-à-vis China has remained remarkably consistent.
Leo Suryadinata
Chinese food and beverage companies have vigorously entered Singapore, and are poised to continue growing.
Maria Monica Wihardja|Sherry Tao Kong
China’s purported industrial overcapacity is a double-edged sword for Southeast Asian economies.
Maria Gabriela Alano|Deryk Baladjay
The Philippines needs to start investing in a credible deterrence strategy if it wants to secure its interests in the West Philippine Sea.
Lye Liang Fook
China has filed reports on environmental protection in the South China Sea to counter the Philippines’ claim of severe damage to the marine ecosystem at Scarborough Shoal and thwart Manila’s effort to file a legal case against China. But Beijing’s efforts provoke some serious questions about its motivations.
Hafiizh Hashim|Lye Liang Fook|Souliya Mounnarath|Nguyen Khac Giang|Yohanes Sulaiman|Aletheia Kerygma B. Valenciano
In March 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping introduced the concept of building a “community with a shared future for mankind” as a central tenet of his “Thought on Diplomacy” with Chinese characteristics. This ambitious vision encompasses more recent programmes such as the Global Development Initiative (GDI), the Global Security Initiative (GSI), the Global Civilisation Initiative (GCI), and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). To date, seven ASEAN countries, excluding Singapore, Brunei, and the Philippines, have endorsed the initiative.
Joanne Lin|Sharon Seah
Laos, the current chair of ASEAN, has found that it has to grapple with increasingly contentious geopolitical issues.
Lee Sue-Ann|William Choong
Data from a multi-year trend analysis of Southeast Asian perceptions of China suggest that the region remains apprehensive about China’s growing power and influence. Yet in the face of greater uncertainty over the future of the United States’ leadership role in the region, the preference has been to try to keep the peace with China.