12 May 2023
Morning Shot: Why is the Myanmar crisis a challenge for ASEAN?
The conflict in Myanmar dominated talks at this week’s ASEAN Summit taking place in Indonesia. This comes against a backdrop of an attack on an aid convoy carrying regional diplomats, including two staffers from the Singapore embassy in Yangon.
On the back of the ongoing conflict, Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong emphasised that the current format of only inviting Myanmar to ASEAN meetings at a non-political level, signals that “all is not well” and “very little progress” has been made on the Five-Point Consensus.
Associate Professor Chong Ja Ian from the Department of Political Science at National University of Singapore with a deeper analysis.
This podcast is produced and edited by Yeo Kai Ting (ykaiting@sph.com.sg)

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31 January 2023
China Perspective: Will China and US go to war in 2025?
From the possibility of seeing a war between the US and China in 2025 as set out in a leaked memo and new regional CPPCC heads, turning the attention to China’s domestic leadership.
Dr Chong Ja Ian Associate Professor, Political Science, National University of Singapore and Non-Resident Fellow, Carnegie China gives us an analysis of those headlines and more.

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03 Aug 2022
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan would not show any change in US policy on the country.
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan regardless of Chinese government's threat. The US administration had earlier tried to assure that it was unnecessary to “come to blows” as such trip did not mean to signal change in US policy on Taiwan. On SGExtra, Prime Time’s Timothy Go speaks with Dr Chong Ja Ian, Associate Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore to find out more.

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