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October 6, 2021

Southeast Asia
Is COVID-19 Shaking Up Politics in Southeast Asia?

Many Southeast Asian leaders’ pandemic responses have sparked public outrage and damaged their legitimacy. This could prompt the biggest political changes across the region since the 1990s.

Protesters lay on the ground in front of a line of police and raise their hands in a three-finger salute.

September 13, 2018

Women and Women's Rights
Pushing for Political Parity: A Conversation With Mu Sochua

As one of the most prominent women in Cambodian politics, Mu Sochua has championed democratic values and human rights. Yet, in 2017 Sochua was forced to flee Cambodia amidst a government crackdown on…

Podcast Cambodian opposition lawmaker Mu Sochua speaks during a news conference in Phnom Penh July 15, 2010.

October 6, 2010

China
The Chinese Energy Intensity Circus

China has been much praised for its target of cutting energy intensity by twenty percent from 2005 to 2010. Indeed many of the measures it’s using to back that target up are impressive. If we’re bein…

July 31, 2014

United States
Politicizing Religious Freedom

In 1998, Congress passed the International Religious Freedom Act-- legislation designed to get increased attention to violations of religious freedom around the globe. Central among its provisions wa…

July 10, 2024

China
U.S.-China Economic Relations With Jay Shambaugh

Jay Shambaugh discusses U.S.-China macroeconomic engagement and dialogue with Chinese leadership on overcapacity and economic imbalances. The C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics b…

Play U.S. President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping shake hands with their countries flags behind them.

September 1, 2015

China
Gauging the Fallout From the Chinese Market Shock

Beyond China’s market upheaval is a country struggling with how to relax state control over the economy amid a slowdown that has global implications, writes CFR’s Robert Kahn.