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Over the next month and a half, Extemp Central will provide R&Ds on the topic areas for the 2022 NSDA National Tournament. USX topic areas will have R&Ds posted on Tuesday & Thursday and IX topic areas will have R&Ds posted on Tuesday & Friday. This is meant to help extempers assemble resources to prepare for the competition in Louisville. This week we tackle IX topic area #4 on East & Southeast Asia.
President Biden hosts a U.S.-ASEAN summit beginning today. Ahead of the meeting, here’s what to know about the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. https://t.co/C5EvWnd2FD
— Council on Foreign Relations (@CFR_org) May 12, 2022
How bad might North Korea’s first COVID-19 outbreak get, and what options does the international community have in responding? https://t.co/cE7UlSC7pe pic.twitter.com/Xf2ctBNEvH
— The Diplomat (@Diplomat_APAC) May 21, 2022
The long-term solution to tensions in East Asia is for the neighboring countries to start taking each other’s respective security concerns more seriously. https://t.co/3C9JrWkDPU pic.twitter.com/hM4WaoNiPZ
— The Diplomat (@Diplomat_APAC) April 28, 2022
Myanmar’s rebels maintain an upbeat message that Burmese media are quick to amplify https://t.co/0K7nObaHwW
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) May 21, 2022
China’s zero-COVID policy was initially popular in the country.
But as restrictions persist and disillusionment grows, Beijing may have an emigration problem on their hands.https://t.co/iTDa6L2nBz
— World Politics Review (@WPReview) May 22, 2022
The US-#Japan Alliance has played a key role in maintaining stability in East Asia. Now, with the rise of #China, the #NorthKorean nuclear threat, instability in Europe, and more, the alliance will play an increasingly important role. Learn more: https://t.co/Y69g341vsh
— Hoover Institution (@HooverInst) May 19, 2022
US, South Korea look to expand military exercises to deter nuclear threat from North https://t.co/SafGERXWDh
— The Independent (@Independent) May 21, 2022
With Southeast Asia containing almost 20% of the world’s #biodiversity, the ASEAN states have a responsibility to make natural conservation a key part of the post-pandemic economic recovery, argued @tonylavs in 2021. #InternationalDayforBiologicalDiversity https://t.co/2OfaxbGMG2
— Project Syndicate (@ProSyn) May 22, 2022
In 2019, while Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam suffered from the worst drought in a century, China held back an unprecedented amount of water, though it had plenty to spare.https://t.co/SpAo5Qwmp8
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) May 18, 2022
Abandoning pandemic controls risks disaster in China, mainly because of a grave blunder: it has not fully vaccinated 100m citizens over 60 https://t.co/e4Rj0cNJUZ
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) May 22, 2022
For years, Japan and Thailand have enjoyed close relations in all areas bar one: defense. That is beginning to change.https://t.co/ccZEPBIaT8 pic.twitter.com/gTXgOMkziM
— The Diplomat (@Diplomat_APAC) May 22, 2022
The gap between the Asean agenda and conventional Democratic ideas about American foreign-policy priorities is dangerously wide, writes @wrmeadhttps://t.co/FH5kRwQZAf
— Wall Street Journal Opinion (@WSJopinion) May 17, 2022