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The Washington Post: Welcome to China’s new interventionist foreign policy

The Washington Post: Trump's travel ban expansion is an unexpected win—for China

Foreign Policy: China is OK with interfering in Guinea’s internal affairs

Foreign Policy: China is repeating U.S. mistakes with its own global arrogance

Foreign Policy: Beijing's propaganda is finding few takers

Foreign Policy: Biden can engage Southeast Asia without compromising U.S. values

Foreign Policy: Myanmar’s military must be shown it can’t win

Foreign Policy: Hun Sen is rewriting Cambodian history under Xi Jinping's tutelage

Foreign Policy: In Cambodia, 'rule of law' means Hun Sen rules

POLITICO Europe: China flexes its trade muscles

POLITICO Europe: How Brexit could undermine human rights in Cambodia

The Boston Globe: American hypocrisy comes back to bite us (book review of "The Vortex")

The Boston Globe: COVID reveals the weakness of China's authoritarianism

The Boston Globe: Stand up for Taiwan

The Boston Globe: China's leader makes it all about him, and that's dangerous

The Boston Globe: Expand American influence around the world, or else China will fill our shoes

Barron's: China's leaders could stem the economic slide. But a desire for control is getting in the way.

Barron's: An opportunity to nudge Asia off reliance on China

Barron's: The U.S. could lose the global chip race without more workers

NPR: After Myanmar coup, U.S. must nudge military to share power with Suu Kyi

CNN: By limiting student visas, the U.S. is losing more than students

Nikkei Asia: Chinese aggression pushes Vietnam ever closer to Washington

Nikkei Asia: ASEAN's Myanmar paralysis underlines its illiberal skew

Slate: China is not the hero of the pandemic

Washington Monthly: Where people want a dictator

World Politics Review: Global South leaders are ignoring anti-China sentiment at their peril

World Politics Review: Will Taiwan's Dongsha Islands be the next Crimea?

World Politics Review: Trump, normally cozy with despots, takes a hard line with Cambodia

American Purpose: Book Review: "In the Dragon's Shadow"

American Purpose: Show me the money

The Wire China: Autocrats' bad education

Policy reports and journal articles

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS): Playacting Democracy in Cambodia

CSIS: Hun Sen, Marcos, and the Anatomy of an American Smile

CSIS: The Costs of Hun Sen's Doomed Myanmar Policy

CSIS: Report: Clarifying the U.S. Approach to Cambodia

CSIS: History, Hun Sen, and Ukraine

CSIS: What's Next for Cambodia's Princeling?

CSIS: What to Expect from Cambodia as ASEAN Chair

CSIS: Spotlight: Biden Should Invite Cambodia and Laos to IPEF

CSIS: Spotlight: Laos's Economy

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR): The Long Game: A Review

CFR: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty: A Review

CFR: New Asian Disorder: A Review

CFR: How China Loses: A Review

CFR: Can Hun Sen Pass Power to His Children?

The Lowy Institute: Another pearl ins China's string?

The Lowy Institute: Playing the long game against Hun Sen

ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute: Pushing Back Against China's Digital Order

ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute: Biden “Re-pivot” to Asia Cannot Be Obama 2.0

ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute: Give It Another shot, Uncle Sam

LSE IDEAS: Battleground Southeast Asia: China's Rise and America's Options

LSE IDEAS: Myanmar’s coup: A blow to democracy, a headache for China

LSE IDEAS: The failures of the China fantasy

​LSE Review of Books: Book Review: "Tomorrow, the World"​​​​

​LSE Review of Books: Book Review: The War on the Uyghurs"

Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs: The Myanmar coup as an ASEAN inflection point

Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs: Book Review: "Maxwell Taylor’s Cold War"

Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs: Book Review: "Strategy Strikes Back"

East-West Center: Hun Sen's mistake? The domestic political ramifications of his Chinese shelter 

Foreign reportage

The New York Times: Trump administration quietly backs off on deporting Vietnamese immigrants 

The New York Times: Dozens more Cambodian immigrants to be deported from U.S., officials say 

The New York Times: Deported and 9,000 miles apart, but 'you stay with the person you love'

The Atlantic: Trump moves to deport Vietnam War refugees 

The Atlantic: Democrats challenge Trump over Vietnam deportations

The Atlantic: Cambodian deportees return to a 'home' they've never known

The Atlantic: Agent Orange's continued legacy in Cambodia and Laos

Los Angeles Times: Vietnam War left a painful legacy for indigenous minority that fought alongside U.S.

Los Angeles Times: He was deported at 19. Now a 30-year-old Cambodian is back home in California

Foreign Policy: Hun Sen's man in Washington (state)

BBC News: From Our Own Correspondent (on Cambodia)

The Spectator: Will Oman ever get over its empire?

The Spectator: Among Dubai’s weary migrant workers

Washington Monthly: Where China isn't sending its best and brightest

Washington Monthly: The Trump administration just quietly deported 25 Cambodian immigrants

Washington Monthly: The Trump administration is about to put more refugees in harm's way

Haaretz: The crumbling structures of Romania's Jewish past

Haaretz: Israel retains warm ties with Myanmar despite human rights issues

Jewish Telegraphic Agency: In repressive Myanmar, a tiny Jewish community hangs on to the past 

Los Angeles Review of Books: Tough fighters hanging on in Vietnam

Southeast Asia Globe: 'Astonishing failure' or 'justice for millions'?

South China Morning Post: Khmer Rouge leaders convicted of genocide

The American Prospect: A free press in Europe?

These Football Times: A trip into world of Andorran football

Los Angeles Review of Books: O Jerusalem, If I Should Forget You

Cultural criticism

Image: Montagnard wedding preparations, Kontum, Vietnam (Charles Dunst)

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