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Southeast Asia
Program
Volume III | Issue 13| July 5, 2012
Southeast Asia from the Corner of 18th & K Streets
Inside This Issue
the week that was
Google’s transparency report reveals
frequent removal of content in
Thailand due to lèse-majesté
ambassador to Myanmar
blocks in disputed waters to foreign bids
looking ahead
ASEAN Regional Forum and ASEAN Ministerial
Meeting/Post Ministerial Conferences
Allen and Barbara Weisel
Talk at CSIS on Hillary Clinton’s
economic legacy
Time to End Strategic Ambiguity in the
South China Sea
gregory poling
July 5, 2012
Gregory Poling is research associate in the Southeast Asia Program
at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington,
D.C.
The CSIS Southeast Asia Program hosted its second annual conference
This was especially true between the Chinese and Philippine and Chinese
While participants tended to revisit the issues of sovereignty and table
ideas for just managing rather than resolving disputes, this year’s
conference felt markedly different from the one on broadly the same
sharp questioners from the audience demonstrated that there was little
has spread through policy communities both in Washington and in
even with perceived recent aggressiveness from Beijing, both of which