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Happy to share my recent publication with East Asia Forum, where I look at the prospects that IKN could bring to Indonesia's maritime potential.

Is Penang a version of Singapore that had not been expelled by Malaysia in '65?

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Very pleased to see my new article discussing some of the implications of the recent events in the Red Sea & Black Sea on navies writ large out in RUSI journal. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

My latest article with Baiq Wardhani CSGS Skytte Institute UT on 🇮🇩 position in the #RussianUkrainianWar has just been published by CSP Journal. We argue that 🇮🇩’s ambivalence is part of its tension between equal sovereignty & familial approach to conflict. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🥁New article! Notice how 🇮🇳 rarely explicitly criticizes or even names 🇨🇳 in diplomatic speech? Well Raphaëlle Khan & I have a theory for that. Our new BJPIR article draws on language pragmatics to argue that 🇮🇳 often signals via a mode of indirect speech called "implicature"

MFA Russia 🇷🇺 Seriously? #MolotovRibbentropPact #HitlerStalinPact

Happy to share my recent publication with RSIS on ways to counter the use of maritime militia in the South China Sea. rsis.edu.sg/rsis-publicati…

Contributed a review of Powell and Wiegand's "The Peaceful Resolution of Territorial and Maritime Disputes" for ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute's Contemporary Southeast Asia. A compelling read, highlighting how states seek peaceful resolution, and why the Philippines deserved their 2016 PCA award.

Fascinated with these maps of Singapore and Malaysia of a bygone era, which I found at the former Bukit Timah Railway Station. The latter shows the old rail lines of Singapore that once connected the city-state with KL. Sad to think how this has become a relic of the past.

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I've welcomed the leaders of the free world to London this morning #SlavaUkraini

New from U.S. Naval War College! China Maritime-CMSI Studies Institute Translation #16: “Tracking Their Wake: How Strong Is the U.S. Navy Today?” digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cmsi-translati… Click here for complete summaries, links & curated content from #CMSI’s previous 15 translations:

Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we

🇮🇩🇨🇳 Ongoing in Beijing: The first-ever 2+2 meeting between Indonesia and China, an important milestone in both countries' strategic partnership eng.mod.gov.cn/xb/News_213114…

Indonesian Pop Base’s 100 Best Indonesian Albums (11—100): 11. Koes Plus — Volume 2 12. Keenan Nasution — Dibatas Angan-Angan 13. Dewa — Bintang Lima 14. Banda Neira — Yang Patah Tumbuh, Yang Hilang Berganti 15. God Bless — Semut Hitam 16. Mocca — My Diary 17. Sore — Ports of

I, အဒိ ပိယမယိစုကိ and Gilang Kembara write an RSIS policy report on TNI AL's modernisation under the MEF and identify potential challenges for naval modernisation post-MEF. Read more from the report at this link: rsis.edu.sg/rsis-publicati…

5. This underscores a profound irony: nations that once positioned themselves as exemplars of civilized and democratic values, and dictating the Global South on the imperative of adhering to international law, now exemplify how to break it for strategic advantage.