https://www.scmp.com/rss/513233/feed Daljit Singh is a Visiting Senior Fellow and Coordinator of the Regional Strategic & Political Studies Programme at the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Daljit Singh Daljit Singh This year marks the 50th anniversary of the end of “America’s war” in Vietnam from 1965 to 1975. The US entered the war in the closing years of an era when it was prepared to fight communist expansion wherever it occurred, a policy initially signalled by the Truman Doctrine. The Vietnam war was a catastrophe in terms of its huge human toll and economic cost, and many Americans viewed it as a tragic folly. However, it proved to be a protective shield against the spread of communism in Southeast... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3317020/what-vietnam-war-can-teach-us-about-trumps-asia-policy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3317020/what-vietnam-war-can-teach-us-about-trumps-asia-policy?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 05 Jul 2025 03:00:12 +0000 A report issued earlier this month by two US-based institutes provides useful proposals to enhance Washington’s profile in Southeast Asia. Written by a joint task force of the Asia Society’s Centre on US-China relations and the 21st Century China Centrre of the University of California in San Diego, the report was prepared and launched on August 1 after careful consultations with both American and Southeast Asian experts. The proposals it makes are sensible but the challenge lies in their... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3232331/us-should-step-diplomacy-southeast-asia-amid-chinas-growing-economic-influence?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3232331/us-should-step-diplomacy-southeast-asia-amid-chinas-growing-economic-influence?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 26 Aug 2023 02:30:16 +0000 Pacific island nations like Kiribati, Palau, Solomon Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia have been making headlines recently in a way they rarely have before. In the past, mass media reports on the Pacific largely focused on rising sea levels or touristic exotica, but the region has since emerged as an arena of fierce geopolitical competition between China and the United States and its allies. China has been cultivating relations with South Pacific nation-states for years, both... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3187024/us-china-relations-asean-needs-pay-attention-great-power-rivalry?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3187024/us-china-relations-asean-needs-pay-attention-great-power-rivalry?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 31 Jul 2022 01:00:23 +0000