Selina Ho

on June 12, 2018

Selina Ho is an Assistant Professor of International Affairs at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. She researches and teaches Chinese politics and foreign policy, and the international relations of Asia. She has published peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on China’s relations with South, Southeast, and Central Asia, focusing on the politics of water and infrastructure development. Her book, Thirsty Cities: Social Contracts and Public Goods Provision in China and India (Cambridge University Press), is forthcoming.

Trump’s North Korea Summit Falls Short of Nixon-Goes-To-China Moment

By Matt Spetalnick, David Brunnstrom on June 12, 2018

Donald Trump’s dramatic meeting with North Korea’s leader may have been choreographed to look like a Nixon-goes-to-China moment, but the summit appears to have failed to secure any concrete commitments by Pyongyang for dismantling its nuclear arsenal.

Military, Politics
Donald Trump, Kim Jong-un, North Korea

Thomas F. Lynch III

on June 12, 2018

Thomas F. (Tom) Lynch III is a Distinguished Research Fellow for South Asia and the Near East at the Institute of National Strategic Studies (INSS) at the National Defense University (NDU) in Washington, D.C. He joined INSS after a 28-year career in the active duty U.S. Army as an armor/cavalry officer and a senior-level politico-military analyst on the personal staffs of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), the Commander, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM), and as a Military Special Assistant to the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan.

Lynch has published widely on the politics and security of South Asia and the Near East, including India-Japan Strategic Cooperation and Implications for U.S. Strategy in the Indo-Asia-Pacific Region (March 2017).

He holds a B.S. from the United States Military Academy and an M.P.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in International Relations from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs at Princeton University.

A World in Transition

A China in the World Podcast

By Paul Haenle & William J. Burns on June 11, 2018

As the world is in the midst of considerable uncertainty and transition, Ambassador William J. Burns points to the emergence of rising powers like China and India, challenges to regional order in the Middle East, and revolutions in new technologies as driving changes in the international landscape and reshaping the global economy, and he argues that international institutions and alliances must be updated to reflect new power realities and that effective diplomacy will be more important than ever.

A Censored Discussion on Chinese Civil Society in China

on June 11, 2018

Wang Zhenyao raised some interesting points in a pre-censored interview with Caixin that are relevant for NGOs working in China. One of Wang’s main insights in the interview was that public discourse about civil society organizations contributed to the 2016 Charity Law that regulates domestic NGOs. Wang also pointed out major shortcomings in China’s civil society management.