Beyond the Indus

Donald Trump goes to Asia for the first time as president. What can we expect?

‘s Ankit Panda () and Prashanth Parameswaran () discuss U.S. President Donald J. Trump's first visit to Asia, where he will visit Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

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Steven Denney returns to discuss the Moon Jae-in administration's acclimation to the North Korea threat.

Steven Denney, a political scientist at the University of Toronto and managing editor of SinoNK, joins ‘s Ankit Panda () to discuss President Moon Jae-in's acclimation to the North Korean threat and South Korea's management of the U.S. alliance under the Trump administration. The podcast assesses recent developments in South Korean defense planning and politics.

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The stakes in Japan's October 2017 are high, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe seeking a new mandate to handle North Korea.

Tobias Harris (), vice president and Japan analyst at Teneo Intelligence, joins ‘s Ankit Panda () to discuss Japanese politics in the lead-up to the October 22, 2017, snap election. The podcast addresses Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's decision to call a snap election later this month, the state of the opposition in Japan, and the geopolitical context of the elections.

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A conversation with Rob Carmichael.

Luke Hunt speaks with legendary journalist James Pringle about the history and future of Southeast Asia and other current developments.

During a career of more than a half century spanning , , and  on several continents, veteran Scottish journalist James Pringle covered several important developments in Southeast Asia, including wars in Vietnam and Cambodia.

Luke Hunt recently sat down with Pringle at his home in Phnom Penh. The pair discussed history and the future of Southeast Asia, and the prospects for China with Donald Trump as president of the United States. This podcast also addresses the need to give Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi the benefit of the doubt over her handling of the Rohingya crisis and the prospect of simultaneous wars in the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

Luke Hunt speaks with academic Craig Etcheson, who played a key role in the establishment of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.

Craig Etcheson was a young American just out of college when he first decided to act against the atrocities committed by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.

Around two million people had perished under their brutal rule, which began in April 1975 and ended in early 1979 with the invasion of Cambodian by Vietnamese forces.

In the 1990s, Etcheson's studies pushed him toward a growing international movement calling for a tribunal capable of putting Pol Pot and his surviving henchmen in the dock for crimes against humanity and genocide.

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) was born and Etcheson served as an investigator with the Office of Co-Prosecutors between 2006 and 2012. Since then the ECCC its victories and proved deeply controversial at times.

Currently a Visiting Scholar at George Mason University's School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Etcheson recently returned to Cambodia where he conducted a series of seminars as a Fulbright senior specialist with Pannasastra University.

The Diplomat's Luke Hunt interviews the stars of Lestari Girls.

Luke Hunt interviews the stars of

When Ningsih Millane arrived in Australia as a young wife in 1987 from Indonesia  left behind a life and an art-loving family that spanned the archipelago from Ambon in the west to Makassar in the far east.

But she also brought with her an education in traditional dance, puppetry, and fluency in five Indonesian dialects. Two years later, with more than a touch of homesickness, she established Sanggar Lestari – a studio which enjoys a formidable reputation for dance and fusion.

The stars of her program are the 13-strong Lestari Girls.

They will shortly tour Indonesia where Lestari is establishing a name for itself with domestic audiences entranced by the idea of their local dance being performed on an international stage by English-speaking girls with an Australian accent.

The Diplomat's Luke Hunt speaks with the stars of the rock band Cambodian Space Project.

The Diplomat chats with senior figures from the Khmer Rouge tribunal in Cambodia.

chats with senior figures from the Khmer Rouge tribunal in Cambodia, which has scored some success in prosecuting surviving leaders of the ultra-Maoist regime.

Efforts to put senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge has heralded , securing three convictions against the regime's former head of state Khieu Samphan, Brother Number Two Nuon Chea and the commandant of the S21 Death camp , also known as Duch.

Additional charges are currently being contested and investigations broadened to include culprits from further down Pol Pot's chain of command who contributed to the deaths of about two million people between 1975 and 1979.

This some of the tribunals many critics.

In this week's podcast, Luke Hunt speaks to co-prosecutor, Will Smith, and Lars Olsen, the chief media spokesman for the (ECCC) about the unique formulae for the United Nations backed war crimes trial, its success, and its problems.

The Diplomat's Luke Hunt speaks with experts about the preservation of the Great Barrier Reef.

correspondent Luke Hunt recently covered the 39th session of the World Heritage Committee in Bonn, Germany, and its decision on whether to list the Great Barrier Reef, off of Australia's northeast coast, as endangered.

It is an issue he has followed extensively, including assignments and interviews with scientists, , politicians and bureaucrats over its for many months.

He was on hand when the committee announced it had unanimously adopted a $1.5 billion, 10-year plan designed to secure the reef's future and felt the relief as the Australian contingent realized the reef would not be listed as endangered.

He spoke with Russell Reichelt, the chairman of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Dermot O'Gorman, the chief executive officer of the World Wildlife Fund in Australia, and the Australian Environment Minister Greg Hunt (no relation).