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Janthasing Naruedee

Programme Analyst/ Women Peace and Security Thailand Lead UN Women Thailand

PacNet #19 – South Korean trade and diplomacy trending away from China

This article summarizes the authors’ chapter in the January 2024 issue of Comparative Connections, which can be read in its entirety here. Chinese diplomacy toward Seoul in late 2023 sputtered forward, driven more by multilateral gatherings involving the two countries than any sense of strategic purpose. Ministerial and working-level economic dialogues on issues such as supply-chain […]

Rei Koga

Rei Koga is currently a WSD-Handa Research Fellow at Pacific Forum. She is a Ph.D. candidate in International Political Economy at the Department of European and International Studies, King’s College London (KCL). Her research interest revolves around Chinese economic statecraft and responses in the Indo-Pacific region. Prior to joining King’s, she studied at the University […]

Regan Lee

Regan is currently an Asian Studies MA student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She also received her Bachelors from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in German with a minor in Korean. Her research is centered on Korean history, specifically the history leading up to the Korean War, Korean international relations, and social trends in pop […]

Ms. Anny Barlow

Maritime Security & Policy Assessment Specialist Maritime Security Consultants

Pacific Forum, DFAT Launch Cyber ASEAN: Southeast Asia’s Homegrown Cyber-Capacity Assessment Framework

  Honolulu, Hawaii, March 20th, 2024 – The Pacific Forum in partnership with Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) released the special report, “Cyber ASEAN: Advancing Cyber Resiliency and Capacity in Southeast Asia.” Cyber ASEAN is the region’s homegrown cyber-capacity assessment framework comprising four pillars: international collaboration, international technical standards, information-sharing, and incident […]

PacNet #17 – How the next Taiwan Crisis connects to Korea

The Taiwan Strait is a region where China’s “core interests” sharply conflict with those of the United States. Previous crises in the Taiwan Strait have never been without danger, but ultimately US military power made China retreat. The growing military power of China tells us the next Taiwan crisis will be different. The US does […]