Donald Trump’s neglect of Southeast Asia, coupled with controversial foreign policy decisions like his Gaza proposal and the ...

Has the time now come for a young, anti-authoritarian, anti-nepotistic 'Indonesian mafia' of reformers to help their American ...

Stanford—Nearly 700 million people live in Southeast Asia. Insulting all of them in less than a minute seems an impossible task. But not for Pete Hegseth, the utterly unqualified Trump-appointed ...

Tammy Duckworth, a senator from Illinois, took apart Hegseth for not being able to identify any ASEAN member state, or the importance of even one of the members and the nature of ties they had ...

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 ...

At the hearing, Senator Tammy Duckworth, a Democrat from Illinois, stressed the importance of Asean centrality for regional peace and stability. Both Democrats and Republicans are aligned ...

The commerce minister has called on the US to strengthen trade relations and recognise Thailand as an integral part of its ...

What is ASEAN and why is it relevant to the US?

The United States army veteran and popular conservative television personality found himself unable to state the number of Asean member countries. He was grilled by Senator Tammy Duckworth during a ...