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Acquiescing to China’s Assertiveness in the South China Sea: U.S. and Australian Policies of Not Tak
C3S Paper No. 0081/ 2015 Introduction Since 1979 the United States has conducted a Freedom of Navigation program designed to challenge...

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Apr 6, 201531 min read


Australia, the ANZUS Alliance and U.S. Rebalancing to the Asia-Pacific By Carlyle A. Thayer
C3S Paper No. 0080/ 2015 Introduction This paper discusses Australia’s alliance with the United Statesand U.S. rebalancing to the...

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Apr 6, 201533 min read
Champion of Progress By Prof. V. Suryanarayan
C3S Paper No. 0076/ 2015 Courtesy: The New Indian Express The light that has guided us all these years has been extinguished,” declared...

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Apr 1, 20154 min read


Romance between Hanoi and Washington By Dr. Rajaram Panda
C3S Paper No. 0074/ 2015 The past three years or so have seen a flurry of diplomatic activities between the United States and Vietnam...

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Mar 27, 20157 min read


Confusions over North Korea’s status as a Nuclear Power By Dr. Rajaram Panda
C3S Paper No. 0071/ 2015 When North Korea “successfully” conducted a third underground nuclear test on February 12, 2013 in defiance of...

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Mar 17, 20157 min read


India’s Strategic Dimensions in Malacca Strait By Vithiyapathy Purushothaman
C3S Paper No. 0069/ 2015 “To be secure on the land, we must be supreme at sea” – Jawaharlal Nehru. Over several decades the sea has...

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Mar 16, 201516 min read


Vietnam: Hanoi Rumour Mill on Leaders Visits By Carlyle A. Thayer
C3S Paper No. 0065/ 2015 Our office has received various reports concerning visits by high-level U.S. and Vietnamese officials to each...

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Mar 16, 20152 min read


Vietnam Communist Party Secretary General to Visit the United States By Carlyle A. Thayer
C3S Paper No. 0064/ 2015 It now seems fairly certain that the Secretary General of the Vietnam CommunistParty, Nguyen Phu Trong, will...

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Mar 16, 20153 min read


Assessment: Vietnam’s Cam Ranh Bay Caught in U.S.-Russia Cross Fire By Carlyle A. Thayer
C3S Paper No. 0063/ 2015 The United States has just asked Vietnam to curtail Russia’s use of the airfield at Cam Ranh Bay to refuel...

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Mar 16, 20152 min read


Vietnam’s Cam Ranh Bay Caught in US-Russia Crossfire By Carlyle A. Thayer
C3S Paper No. 0060/ 2015 Courtesy: The Diplomat How will Hanoi respond to U.S. pressure to curtail flights of Russian refueling aircraft...

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Mar 16, 20154 min read


The Philippines and Vietnam Forge a Strategic Partnership By Carlyle A. Thayer
C3S Paper No. 0058/ 2015 Courtesy: The Diplomat On January 30, the Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs Albert del Rosario hosted his...

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Mar 11, 20157 min read


Bangladesh: Avijit's Murder Heralds Ominous Signs, Bhaskar Roy
C3S Paper No. 0055/ 2015 The assassination of Avijit Roy on Dhaka university campus on February 26 is a message to the secular and free...

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Mar 5, 20156 min read


Malaysia as ASEAN Chair by Carlyle A. Thayer
C3S Paper No. 0034/ 2015 1) What can we expect from Malaysia as ASEAN Chair for 2015, given it is a claimant party in the South China Sea...

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Feb 17, 20152 min read


World Affairs_Vietnam – Carlyle A. Thayer
C3S Paper No. 0032/ 2015 Courtesy: World Affairs_Vietnam A major maritime confrontation between China and Vietnam erupted in 2014 (early...

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Feb 17, 20152 min read


Vietnam: Conference on Relations with the U.S. By Carlyle A. Thayer
C3S Paper No. 0027/ 2015 Q1. Vietnam hosted a conference on relations with the United States. One of the speakers said at the seminar,...

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Feb 4, 20154 min read


The Philippines, Malaysia, and Vietnam Race to South China Sea Defense Modernization By Carlyle A. T
C3S Paper No. 0025/ 2015 Defense Modernization Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam are all striving to bolster their maritime...

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Feb 4, 20158 min read


Laos: Impact of the Don Sahong Dam on Relations with Vietnam By Carlyle A. Thayer
C3S Paper No. 0024/ 2015 We read the transcript of your remarks on ChannelNews Asia concerning the Don Sahong dam on the Mekong River...

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Feb 4, 20152 min read


Cambodia: Who Do the Lower Ranks of the Military Support? By Carlyle A. Thayer
C3S Paper No. 0021/ 2015 Q1. After Cambodia’s 2013 national election, Kem Sokha, Vice President of the Cambodia National Rescue Party...

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Feb 4, 20152 min read


King, Thou Shouldst be Living at this hour! By B.S.Raghavan
C3S Paper No. 0019/ 2015 I have taken the title of my talk from the immortal line of a poem on John Milton by William Wordsworth, as I...

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Jan 29, 201516 min read


Cambodia: Vietnamese Montagnards Seek Asylum By Carlyle A. Thayer
C3S Paper No. 0016/ 2015 Q1-Why do you think Vietnam held so much sway over what happened to the Montagnard refugee seekers in Cambodia...

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Jan 19, 20152 min read
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