Beyond the Indus

How has China approached vaccine diplomacy in Southeast Asia?

’s Asia Geopolitics podcast host Ankit Panda () speaks to Sebastian Strangio, ’s Southeast Asia editor, about China’s vaccine diplomacy in the region.

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What lies ahead for the Indian economy?

’s Asia Geopolitics podcast host Ankit Panda () speaks to Abhijnan Rej, director of research at Diplomat Risk Intelligence, about the Indian economy. Rej discusses the findings of DRI Report No. 4:

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A conversation with veteran foreign correspondent Lindsay Murdoch.

Australian correspondent Lindsay Murdoch has been awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) on this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to journalism after spending most of his five decades in journalism covering upheavals across Southeast Asia.

Murdoch began his career working on the Warragul Guardian in southeast Australia in 1968 and joined The Age in Melbourne in 1977 as a police reporter. Starting from the mid-1980s, spent he spent 25 years as a foreign correspondent throughout Asia for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.

Murdoch is also a veteran of the wars in Iraq, was among the first journalists to reach Banda Aceh, Indonesia after the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004, and covered the carnage in East Timor in the late 1990s.

Murdoch spoke with The Diplomat’s Luke Hunt about his award, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its relationship with China, the civil war in Myanmar, and how Australia needs to do more – including imposing sanctions against the junta that seized power in February.

But his main concern remains the COVID-19 pandemic and the hardships and turbulence that have beset ordinary people across the region as economies crumble and livelihoods evaporate.

Are New Delhi and Beijing in a new bilateral era?

’s Asia Geopolitics podcast host Ankit Panda () speaks to Sushant Singh, a senior fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, about India-China relations a year after the June 15, 2020, clash between the People’s Liberation Army and the Indian Army in the Galwan Valley.

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A conversation with a veteran war reporter.

How will changes in military technology bear on a potential near-future U.S.-China conflict?

’s Asia Geopolitics podcast host Ankit Panda () speaks Franz-Stefan Gady, a research fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, about how emerging technologies might affect a future conflict between the United States and China in the Taiwan Strait. The podcast discusses Gady’s new report for IISS’s 2021 Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment.

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A conversation with security-risk consultant Ross Milosevic.

The political situation in Afghanistan remains deeply uncertain.

’s Asia Geopolitics podcast host Ankit Panda () speaks to Sean Carberry, former NPR Kabul correspondent and political analyst, about Afghanistan’s political and security future after the anticipated withdrawal of U.S. forces later this year.

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A conversation with the trade unionist Wim Conklin.

How does North Korea keep fueling its military and other needs?

’s Asia Geopolitics podcast host Ankit Panda () speaks to Lucas Kuo of C4ADS and Joseph Byrne of the Royal United Services Institute about North Korean maritime fuel smuggling activities. Kuo and Byrne are among the authors of a on North Korea’s illicit fuel smuggling networks.

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