Donald Trump’s neglect of Southeast Asia, coupled with controversial foreign policy decisions like his Gaza proposal and the ...
Has the time now come for a young, anti-authoritarian, anti-nepotistic 'Indonesian mafia' of reformers to help their American ...
Stanford—Nearly 700 million people live in Southeast Asia. Insulting all of them in less than a minute seems an impossible task. But not for Pete Hegseth, the utterly unqualified Trump-appointed ...
Recent senate hearings to confirm Donald Trump’s cabinet picks brought into sharp contrast the candidate for US secretary of defence, Pete Hegseth, and the secretary of state, Marco Rubio. Tammy ...
Tammy Duckworth, a senator from Illinois, took apart Hegseth for not being able to identify any ASEAN member state, or the importance of even one of the members and the nature of ties they had ...
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Trump ready with Asean policy 2.0
Last week's Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing for Senator Marco Rubio was very insightful, especially regarding comments related to US-Asean relations. Mr Rubio demonstrated knowledge about ...
Sen. Tammy Duckworth, grilling President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for defense secretary over whether he had the “breadth and depth of knowledge” needed to lead international negotiations, asked ...
Yet, one must understand the context and implications of this flub to appreciate what it means for ASEAN’s engagement with the US. Consider the two parts of Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth’s ...
A key component of the Trump administration’s strategy in the Indo-Pacific was a reliance on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN. Duckworth recalled, “I thought, okay ...
“I thought that Tammy Duckworth was the most effective because she challenged him on the facts and duties of the job, and he came up short,” Griffin said on the show Wednesday. “I have been to the ...
Pete Hegseth doesn't know which countries are in ASEAN when asked by Senator Tammy Duckworth. This exemplifies how utterly unfit Pete Hegseth is to hold the office of Secretary of Defense.
Tammy Duckworth, grilling President-elect Donald ... hearing that he couldn't tell Duckworth the exact number of ASEAN nations, but that "I know we have allies in South Korea and Japan in AUKUS ...