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New Report Offers Recommendations to Improve China’s BRI

It identifies five main themes in its findings and recommendations.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Executive Roundtable with Ambassador Scot Marciel

29 Jul 2019

11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Blog Post

Oz Elliott 2018 Award Winners Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo Freed by Myanmar Government

The two reporters had been incarcerated since 2017 for their reporting on the plight of the Rohingya. Asia Society awarded them with Asia's most prominent journalism prize last year.

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Cultural Diplomacy & Chiragh - A Light in the Dark

On April 25, 2019, Asia Society India Centre hosted a conversation on cultural diplomacy and a series of performances by musicians from the South Asian Symphony Orchestra.

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Asia's Struggle for a Free Press (Complete)

Natashya Gutierrez of Vice Media Asia delivers a presentation on declining press freedom across the continent.

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Huawei, Hi-Tech & U.S. China Ties

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Steve Stecklow publicly discusses his story on Huawei for the first time

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Renewed Violence in Myanmar's Rakhine State

Debra Eisenman joined VOA Asia to talk about the outbreak of conflict in Myanmar’s Rakhine State—between a Rakhine ethnic armed group and Myanmar’s military.

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13 Fearless Predictions About Asia in 2019

Members of the Asia Society family tell us what they think is going to happen next year.

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Australia and a region in the making

By Greg Earl, Editor, Asia Briefing and Disruptive Asia, Asia Society Australia

Australia can’t turn away from the challenges and shouldn’t miss the opportunities that such a diverse region as South-East Asia will keep presenting.

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Enhancing the rule of law in Asia: the Australian role

By Shamim Razavi, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright Australia

Just as the New Columbo Plan has emphasised learning from Asia, so our development of the rule of law can also stimulate our own learning - learning how to better read and engage with Asia.

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The leapfrog generation: Australia’s cyber diplomacy dilemma

By Aim Sinpeng, Lecturer in Comparative Politics, Department of Government and International Relations & Co-Founder of Sydney Cyber Security Network, University of Sydney

How Australia chooses to engage with the region on social media regulation will test the limits of its global commitment to promoting a free and secure cyberspace.