Stanford—Nearly 700 million people live in Southeast Asia. Insulting all of them in less than a minute seems an impossible task. But not for Pete Hegseth, the utterly unqualified Trump-appointed ...

Melik Abdul, a GOP strategist and member of the Black Americans for Trump Coalition, said that he's been "fielding a lot of calls" after President Donald Trump (without evidence) blamed DEI policies ...

Recent senate hearings to confirm Donald Trump’s cabinet picks brought into sharp contrast the candidate for US secretary of ...

As he does regular weightlifting, Wickramasinghe, in his day job of parsing the markets, is projecting that the Straits Times ...

It is no surprise that a top member of the Trump administration, like Hegseth, faces concerns, as there have been worries that the boss himself may not be keen on Southeast Asia.

Trump hates US trade deficits, loves US tariffs and is mostly indifferent, if not hostile, toward multilateral arrangements including ASEAN.

Last week's Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing for Senator Marco Rubio was very insightful, especially regarding comments related to US-Asean relations. Mr Rubio demonstrated knowledge about ...

While Hegseth fumbled in responding to questions from Sen. Tammy Duckworth, who was born in Bangkok and injured in combat ...

Some of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks struggled to answer basic questions during their Senate confirmation hearings this week. There was litany of obfuscation and waffling across the ...

Republicans appear poised to confirm Trump's controversial nominee to lead the government's largest and most complex agency ...

Donald Trump did not nominate Pete Hegseth as defence secretary for his knowledge of global affairs, but the lapse highlights two concerns for Southeast Asian countries, says RSIS’ Kevin Chen.