Michael Martin is an adjunct fellow at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He served as a specialist policy adviser on Myanmar, China, Hong Kong, and Vietnam for two decades. His work included a 15-year tenure as a political and economic analyst with the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress.

Myanmar's state media reported the military government has released 5,864 prisoners, including 180 foreign nationals, under amnesty for the country's independence day.

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, was questioned about ASEAN during a heated Senate confirmation and struggled with his response.

The EU should prepare to take a proactive role in addressing the Myanmar crisis as US President-elect Donald Trump looks set to disengage.

Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth, born in Bangkok to a Thai mother and an American father, posed the question to Pete Hegseth.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth grilled proposed defense secretary Pete Hegseth over the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, asking him if he could name a single member.

President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth, admitted to having limited knowledge about ASEAN, struggling to name even one member of the bloc during his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday.

Hegseth responded at the heated Senate confirmation hearing that he couldn’t tell Duckworth the exact number of ASEAN nations, but that “I know we have allies in South Korea and Japan in AUKUS (a pact between Australia, the United Kingdom and the U.S.) with Australia.”

Republicans appear poised to confirm Trump’s controversial nominee to lead the government’s largest and most complex agency

The article argues that Trump’s 2025 presidency will accelerate the breakdown of international democratic structures and law, building on policies established during Biden’s term. Biden’s vetoes at the UN Security Council and rejection of ICC warrants against Israeli leaders demonstrated America’s growing dismissal of international institutions.

More than 3,000 global leaders will meet in Switzerland next week to seek solutions for some of the most pressing issues of the day

Donald Trump is throwing his second US administration into an already volatile mix – adding his own blend of disorder, writes