Is Southeast Asia edging toward greater unity on the global stage, or are entrenched national interests reinforcing division? Huong Le Thu, deputy director of the Asia Program at International Crisis Group; and Pita Limjaroenrat, former prime minister-designate of Thailand, discuss how the region’s leaders are balancing between China and the United States. James Crabtree, non-resident distinguished fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute, moderates the conversation.

This panel was hosted by the Asia Society, a NYSEAN Partner.

In this episode of Gatty Lecture Rewind, the host Namfon Narumol Choochan interviews “Mai” Anocha Suwichakornpong, independent filmmaker, producer, founder of Electric Eel Film, and Associate Professor of Film at Columbia University. They discuss how her previous and upcoming features have engaged with the politics of remembering and forgetting of state violence in Thai history.

In this episode of Southeast Asia Radio, produced by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Gregory B. Poling and Andreyka Natalegawa are joined by Susannah Patton to discuss the Southeast Asia Program’s upcoming Global Alignment Index report. The podcast also covers the latest from Southeast Asia, from updates on U.S.-Cambodia ties to the Philippines assuming the ASEAN chairmanship.

In an article for Fulcrum, Paul Chambers discusses the reshuffling of 249 generals and colonels in the Royal Thai Police. Although the annual reshuffle is meant to be clean and professional, it has done little to eradicate malfeasance and partisanship in the force.

In an article for Mekong Independent, Gerald Flynn brings attention to the Karen Indigenous community in Northern Thailand, and the problems of air pollution they face as a result of maize cultivation.

In an article for Al Jazeera, Erin Hale gives an overview of the upgraded ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement, which will broaden collaboration on infrastructure, digital and green transitions, trade facilitation, and people to people exchanges, as trade between both parties grow under Trump's trade wars.

In an article for UC Berkeley News, Lila Thulin discusses Long Le-Khac's 1,900-entry long database of Asian American literary canon. By gathering publications featuring the keyword “Asian American” or taking media from journals dedicated to Asian American studies, Le-Khac frames it as a chance for academics to audit what's considered the Asian American canon and see who might be missing or underrepresented.