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Podcasts from The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) covering the critical issues that leaders need to understand – because the decisions they make matter and the stakes are high.

  1. Next in Line: Malaysia’s Rising Leaders and Foreign Policy

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    Next in Line: Malaysia’s Rising Leaders and Foreign Policy

    From the National Bureau of Asian Research, an Asia Insight miniseries examining the future of foreign policy through the lens of emerging leadership in South and Southeast Asia. This fourth episode features Dr. Ann Marie Murphy of Seton Hall University sitting down with Dr. Nur Shahadah Jamil and Ms. Ariel Tan to discuss Malaysia’s emerging generation of political leaders and the factors influencing their foreign policy outlooks from Kuala Lumpur. To view the project webpage, visit https://www.nbr.org/program/next-generation-of-leaders-in-south-and-southeast-asia/. Dr. Nur Shahadah Jamil is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of China Studies at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Her written commentary can be viewed at https://www.nbr.org/publication/the-future-of-malaysian-foreign-policy-in-an-era-of-u-s-china-competition/. Ms. Ariel Tan is a Senior Fellow and Coordinator of the Malaysia Programme at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Her written commentary can be viewed at https://www.nbr.org/publication/malaysias-foreign-policy-structural-stability-amid-geopolitical-shifts/.

    36 min
  2. Documenting China’s Borderlands – Episode 9: On Edge: Security at China’s Borderlands

    20 juin

    Documenting China’s Borderlands – Episode 9: On Edge: Security at China’s Borderlands

    From the National Bureau of Asian Research, an Asia Insight miniseries exploring the geostrategic significance of China’s borderlands, led by Nadège Rolland, Distinguished Fellow for China Studies at NBR. Episode Nine: On Edge: Security at China’s Borderlands This ninth episode unpacks how the concept of “comprehensive national security” has been shaping China’s new security posture in its borderland regions. Understanding traditional and non-traditional security as deeply interwoven leads to greater latitude for security projection abroad. The conversation focuses on the evolution of China’s attempts to address security concerns in its proximate periphery and zooms in on its approach to addressing transnational organized crime. With Carla P. Freeman (Johns Hopkins SAIS), Shibani Mathani (freelance investigative journalist, former Washington Post bureau chief), and Martin Thorley (Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime). Materials cited or referenced in the recording Xi Jinping, 坚持总体国家安全观走中国特色国家安全道路 [Uphold the Holistic Approach to National Security and Follow the Path of National Security with Chinese Characteristics] (Remarks at the first meeting of the Central National Security Commission) April 16, 2014, https://cpc.people.com.cn/n/2014/0416/c64094-24900492.html. Xi Jinping, “New Asian Security Concept for New Progress in Security Cooperation” (Remarks at the Fourth Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia) May 21, 2014, https://www.mfa.gov.cn/eng/xw/zyjh/202405/t20240530_11340721.html. U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, “China’s Exploitation of Scam Centers in Southeast Asia,” July 18, 2025, https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/2025-07/Chinas_Exploitation_of_Scam_Centers_in_Southeast_Asia.pdf. Martin Thorley, “Evolution of the State-Crime Nexus: Presenting Geocriminality,” Journal of Illicit Economies and Development 8 No.1, 2026. Martin Thorley, “A Changing Landscape: China’s New Model of Global Governance and its Impact on the Fight against Organized Crime,” GI-TOC, May 2024. Shibani Mahtani, Christian Shepherd, Pei-Lin Wu, “China Cultivated High-Rolling Crime Families Before Turning on Them,” The Washington Post, June 21, 2024. “How The Post Investigated Brutal Scam Compounds in Myanmar,” The Washington Post, June 18, 2024, https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/world/how-the-post-investigated-brutal-scam-compounds-in-myanmar/2024/06/18/ddfc9500-fd68-4aee-ac17-e8871a334ed4_video.html. "Beyond Boundaries: The Chinese Party-State and Geocriminality in Southeast Asia," GI-TOC, June 2026 https://globalinitiative.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Beyond-boundaries-The-Chinese-party-state-and-geocriminality-in-South-East-Asia-GI-TOC-June-2026.pdf. Additional Recommended Readings Carla Freeman, Bates Gill, and Alison McFarland, “China’s Global Security Initiative Takes Shape in Southeast and Central Asia,” USIP Special Report No.534, November 2024. Selina Ho, Xue Gong, Carla P. Freeman, “China’s Interventions in ‘Gray Special Economic Zones’ in Southeast Asia’s Borderlands,” Journal of Contemporary China 35, No.159, 2025. Shibani Mahtani, Christian Shepherd and Pei-Lin Wu, “China Cultivated High-Rolling Crime Families Before Turning on Them," The Washington Post, June 21, 2024. Simon Menet, “Policing Beyond Borders: China’s Law-Enforcement Expansion in the Mekong Region,” Borderlands, September 17, 2025. Wang Junsheng [王俊生] “Strategic Innovation in China’s Diplomacy Toward its Periphery in the New Era : Historical Lessons and Practical Direction,” [新时期中国周边外交战略创新： 历史镜鉴与务实方向] Journal of Renmin University No.1, 2026. Hoang Thi Ha, “China’s Statecraft through the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation: Building a Sino-Centric Regional Order,” Borderlands, November 13, 2025. Nadège Rolland (Ed.) “Securing the Belt and Road Initiative: China’s Evolving Military Engagement Along the Silk Roads,” NBR Special Report No.80, September 3, 2019.

    36 min

  3. 16 juin

    Asia Policy at 20: Bridging Scholarship and Policymaking

    2026 marks 20 years of Asia Policy, NBR’s peer-reviewed scholarly journal presenting policy-relevant academic research on the Asia-Pacific that draws clear and concise conclusions useful to today’s policymakers. This Asia Insight episode features NBR President Michael Wills in conversation with two members of the Asia Policy Editorial Board, Dr. Mike Green and Dr. Jessica Chen Weiss, on what bridging the gap between the academic and policy worlds looks like in practice and what it takes for research to truly inform policymaking on Asia today. Mike Green is Professor and Chief Executive Officer at the United States Studies Centre in Sydney, Australia. He is a member of the Asia Policy Editorial Board at NBR. Jessica Chen Weiss is the David M. Lampton Professor of China Studies and the inaugural Faculty Director of the Institute for America, China, and the Future of Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. She is a member of the Asia Policy Editorial Board at NBR. Michael Wills is President of NBR.

    34 min
  4. Next in Line: Sri Lanka’s Rising Leaders and Foreign Policy

    30 mai

    Next in Line: Sri Lanka’s Rising Leaders and Foreign Policy

    From the National Bureau of Asian Research, an Asia Insight miniseries examining the future of foreign policy through the lens of emerging leadership in South and Southeast Asia. This third episode features Dr. Christopher Clary of the University at Albany sitting down with Dr. Rajni Gamage and Dr. Bhagya Senaratne to discuss Sri Lanka’s emerging generation of political leaders and the factors influencing their foreign policy outlooks from Colombo. To view the project webpage, visit https://www.nbr.org/program/next-generation-of-leaders-in-south-and-southeast-asia/. Dr. Rajni Gamage is a Research Fellow in the Institute of South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore. Her written commentary can be viewed at https://www.nbr.org/publication/tracking-the-next-generation-of-leaders-in-sri-lanka/. Dr. Bhagya Senaratne is the inaugural Director of Education at the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies in Sri Lanka. Her written commentary can be viewed at https://www.nbr.org/publication/sri-lankas-next-generation-of-leaders-shaping-the-future-of-foreign-policy/.

    37 min
  5. Documenting China’s Borderlands – Episode 8: Arteries of Power

    20 mai

    Documenting China’s Borderlands – Episode 8: Arteries of Power

    From the National Bureau of Asian Research, an Asia Insight miniseries exploring the geostrategic significance of China’s borderlands, led by Nadège Rolland, Distinguished Fellow for China Studies at NBR. Episode Eight: Arteries of Power This eighth episode of the Borderlands podcast miniseries explores one of the most visible manifestations of China’s growing engagement with its neighbors—infrastructure development—and considers whether transportation, telecommunication, and energy infrastructure function not just as conduits to transfer people and goods but also as channels of state influence and generators of strategic advantages. With Jessica C. Liao (U.S. Army War College), Timothy S. Oakes (University of Colorado Boulder), and Shinji Yamaguchi (Japan National Institute for Defense Studies). Materials cited or referenced in the recording Richard Louis Edmonds, “The Legacy of Sun Yat-sen’s Railway Plans,” China Quarterly, no. 111 (1987). Thomas Bird, “Tracing the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway,” Los Angeles Review of Books, April 10, 2020. Jean-François Rousseau, “An Imperial Railway Failure: The Indochina-Yunnan Railway, Journal of Transport History 35, no.1 (2014). "习近平在“加强互联互通伙伴关系”东道主伙伴对话会上的讲话" [Xi Jinping Speech at the Dialogue on Strengthening Connectivity Partnership] November 8, 2014, https://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/2014-11/08/c_127192119.htm. Shinji Yamaguchi, “Creating ‘Facts on the Mountains’: China’s Gray Zone Playbook in the Himalayas,” Institute for Security and Development Policy, Issue Brief, August 29, 2025. Galen Murton, “Strategic Spaces of the Sino-Nepali Borderlands: Making and Breaking Trans-Himalayan Trade Relations,” NBR, Borderlands Project, April 15, 2026, https://strategicspace.nbr.org/strategic-spaces-of-the-sino-nepali-borderlands-making-and-breaking-trans-himalayan-trade-relations. “President Xi Jinping: Why I Proposed the Belt and Road,” CGTN, May 12, 2017, https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d596a4d31677a4d/index.html. Additional Recommended Readings Jessica C. Liao and Zenel Garcia, “How China Reinvented the BRI,” Foreign Policy, April 3, 2026. Jessica C. Liao and Zenel Garcia, “China Is Squeezing Southeast Asia,” Foreign Affairs, March 24, 2026. Timothy S. Oakes, “The National New Area as an Infrastructure Space: Urbanization and the New Regime of Circulation in China,” China Quarterly, no. 255 (2023). Timothy S. Oakes, “Global China and Infrastructure Power: The Technopolitics of the ‘China Model’ of Development’,” Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs 10, no. 85 (2024). Cai Penghong, 蔡鹏鸿, “互联互通战略与中国国家安全——基于地缘政治视角的互联互通” [The Connectivity Strategy and China’s National Security—Connectivity from a Geopolitical Perspective], Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, August 26, 2015. Mao Weizhun 毛维准 and Ma Yunfei马赟菲 ,“互联互通的地缘政治： 大国基础设施竞争的行为逻辑” [The Geopolitics of Connectivity: The Behavioral Logic of Great Power Infrastructure Competition,” Foreign Affairs Review 5 (2024).

    35 min
  6. Next in Line: Indonesia’s Rising Leaders and Foreign Policy

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    Next in Line: Indonesia’s Rising Leaders and Foreign Policy

    From the National Bureau of Asian Research, an Asia Insight miniseries examining the future of foreign policy through the lens of emerging leadership in South and Southeast Asia. This second episode features Dr. Ann Marie Murphy of Seton Hall University sitting down with Dr. Leonard Sebastian and Mr. Muhammad Waffaa Kharisma to discuss Indonesia's emerging generation of political leaders and the factors influencing their foreign policy outlooks from Jakarta. To view the project webpage, visit https://www.nbr.org/program/next-generation-of-leaders-in-south-and-southeast-asia/. Dr. Leonard Sebastian is a Senior Fellow at the Indonesia Programme, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His written commentary can be viewed at https://www.nbr.org/publication/how-indonesias-next-generation-will-navigate-u-s-china-competition/. Mr. Muhammad Waffaa Kharisma is a Researcher at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Jakarta, Indonesia. His written commentary can be viewed at https://www.nbr.org/publication/indonesias-next-generation-foreign-policy-outlook-in-a-fragmenting-global-order/.

    28 min

  7. 20 avr.

    From Competing to Racing: How 2025 Reshaped U.S.–China Relations

    2026 marks 20 years of Asia Policy, NBR’s peer-reviewed scholarly journal presenting policy-relevant academic research on the Asia-Pacific that draws clear and concise conclusions useful to today’s policymakers. This Asia Insight episode features NBR Senior Director of Research and Programs Doug Strub in conversation with Dr. Evan Medeiros and Mr. Gerard DiPippo as they discuss Dr. Mederios’ latest essay for Asia Policy titled “A New Era of U.S.-China Interaction: From Competing to Racing.” Dr. Mederios’ essay was originally published on April 17, 2026, and can be read at https://www.nbr.org/publication/a-new-era-of-u-s-china-interaction-from-competing-to-racing/. Gerard DiPippo is Director for Global Macro at the Eurasia Group. Evan Medeiros is Director of Asian Studies and the Penner Family Chair at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Doug Strub is Senior Director of Research and Programs at NBR.

    36 min
  8. Next in Line: India’s Rising Leaders and Foreign Policy

    30 mars

    Next in Line: India’s Rising Leaders and Foreign Policy

    From the National Bureau of Asian Research, an Asia Insight miniseries examining the future of foreign policy through the lens of emerging leadership in South and Southeast Asia. This first episode features Dr. Christopher Clary of the University at Albany sitting down with Dr. Rohan Mukherjee and Mr. Bashir Ali Abbas to discuss India’s emerging generation of political leaders and the factors influencing their foreign policy outlooks from New Delhi. To view the project webpage, visit https://www.nbr.org/program/next-generation-of-leaders-in-south-and-southeast-asia/. Mr. Bashir Ali Abbas is a Senior Research Associate with the Council for Strategic and Defense Research based in New Delhi, India. His written commentary can be viewed at https://www.nbr.org/publication/continuity-amid-change-how-indias-emerging-political-leaders-will-steer-its-future-foreign-policy/. Dr. Rohan Mukherjee is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Nonresident Fellow at NBR. His written commentary can be viewed at https://www.nbr.org/publication/after-modi-political-leadership-and-the-future-of-indian-foreign-policy/.

    33 min
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Podcasts from The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) covering the critical issues that leaders need to understand – because the decisions they make matter and the stakes are high.

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