Beyond the Indus

Was the Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, doomed to failure from the start?

‘s Ankit Panda () speaks to Grace Liu (), a research associate at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, about the outcome of the second summit meeting between U.S. President Donald J. Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam.

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A discussion of what we know so far about Indian air strikes on Pakistani territory on February 26, 2019.

‘s Ankit Panda () and Prashanth Parameswaran () discuss the February 26 airstrikes by the Indian Air Force on Pakistan-based terrorist targets and Pakistan’s reaction.

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Does the Pulwama VBIED attack represent an inflection point in Kashmir?

‘s Ankit Panda () and Prashanth Parameswaran () discuss the February 14 attack against Indian paramilitary personnel in Kashmir and its aftermath.

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A new biography details the life of a former Thai prime minister.

Anand Panyarachun, a former prime minister of Thailand, has always preferred a quiet life, which contrasts sharply with his enormously successful career as a high profile diplomat and politician who helped shaped Thailand’s politics as well as its outlook on the world.

He first emerged as a particularly important diplomatic figure towards the end of the Vietnam War, when the United States was closing military bases in Thailand, the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) was being revitalized, and ties with China were being normalized. As a politician, while he had several achievements, his economic reforms and the drafting of the “People’s Constitution” in particular contributed much to Thailand’s future success and its ability to manage political storms.

He is now the subject of a biographywritten by veteran correspondent Dominic Faulder. Luke Hunt spoke with Faulder at the Foreign Correspondents’  Club of Thailand.

Does Turkey’s recent statement on the Uyghurs mark a one-off moment or the start of a new era?

‘s Ankit Panda () speaks to Shannon Tiezzi, ‘s editor-in-chief, about a recent statement from the Turkish government vocally criticizing China’s treatment of ethnic Uyghurs in its Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Read Tiezzi’s recent article on the issue .

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Luke Hunt speaks with veteran journalist Peter Starr about the career of one of the twentieth century’s greatest guerrilla commanders.

Heng Samrin played an outsized and often overlooked role in Cambodia’s history and politics. Arguably one of the twentieth century’s greatest guerrilla commanders, he defected from the Khmer Rouge and fled to Vietnam, where he plotted his return with Hanoi as part of a military force that ousted a genocidal regime led by Pol Pot. He then helped lay the foundation for Cambodia as we know it today.

Heng Samrin remains a senior figure in the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) till today, and his book, , has been translated and updated into an English edition following years of hard work, published by EDM in Singapore.

Peter Starr, a journalist and author who has lived in Asia since 1986, was the chief editor responsible for the final publication. He spoke with Luke Hunt about the project as well as broader reflections about Heng Samrin and Cambodia’s historical evolution.

Two U.S. alliances are in trouble in Asia.

‘s Ankit Panda () and Prashanth Parameswaran () discuss tensions in the U.S.-Philippines and U.S.-South Korea alliances.

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What is the Asia Reassurance Initiative Act and what will it do?

‘s Ankit Panda () and Prashanth Parameswaran () discuss the United States’ Asia Reassurance Initiative Act, which was signed into law on December 31, 2018.

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How close did the United States and North Korea really come to war in 2017?

‘s Ankit Panda () speaks to Van Jackson, an American political scientist and former Pentagon official, about U.S.-North Korea relations. Jackson is the author of (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

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A conversation with one of the key witnesses to an incident that sparked global attention last year.

In the summer of 2018, the world was gripped by an unfolding drama when members of a football team were trapped in a cave in Thailand. The incident at the Tham Luang Nang Non cave complex in Thailand’s Chiang Rai Province continued on for weeks, and the 12 boys and their coach were eventually rescued in a dramatic rescue effort involving thousands of people

Among the journalists on the scene was Liam Cochrane, a reporter for the ABC television network at home in Australia. Cochrane has just finished a book on the ordeal, which will be released in the United States as and in Australia and elsewhere as . It offers well-written, exclusive interviews and fresh insights into the ordeal, and wraps up a complicated story and its aftermath that involved rescuers from countries far and wide who held the world’s attention with their bid to save the children.

The Luke Hunt spoke with Cochrane about the book and his reflections on the incident.

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