The Milk Tea Alliance Confronts China’s Weak Brew
Quinton Temby
Social media movements such as the Milk Tea Alliance are tapping into discontent with the regional decline of democracy and fears about the rise of China as a hegemonic power.

Quinton Temby
Social media movements such as the Milk Tea Alliance are tapping into discontent with the regional decline of democracy and fears about the rise of China as a hegemonic power.
Max Lane
Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo has called for criticism of his administration. He got more than he bargained for.
Dien Nguyen An Luong
Keeping control of the cyber-space floodgates while not alienating the social media savvy youth is difficult.
Su-Ann Oh
The ongoing anti-coup protests are qualitatively different and pose a bigger challenge to Myanmar’s military rulers than earlier protest movements.
Charles Dunst
Digital rivalry in Southeast Asia goes well beyond the choice of 5G providers.
Dien Nguyen An Luong
Typically, governments are influenced by sentiments expressed in social media to and adjust their policies accordingly. A string of episodes has demonstrated that Vietnam has taken a leaf out of China’s playbook in steering the online narrative.
Dien Nguyen An Luong
A lawsuit filed against TikTok by a Vietnamese firm portends a tightening of controls on social media by the authorities.
Dien Nguyen An Luong|Benjamin Hu
The relative success of Vietnam’s Covid-19 contact tracing app has sparked concerns about the privacy of users. Currently, however, app users are wont to give the government the benefit of the doubt.
Moe Thuzar
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s de facto leader, has finally made her debut on Facebook. If managed carefully, this would help to rally efforts to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.
Nyi Nyi Kyaw
Myanmar's efforts to combat fake news and hate speech on Facebook are off the mark. They fail to consider the growing digital literacy of Facebook users.