Conversations: Understanding influence in Southeast Asia

25/09/2025 26 min
Conversations: Understanding influence in Southeast Asia

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Southeast Asia is one of the most geopolitically diverse and contested regions of the world. But does China or the United States have more influence? And is it even accurate to describe the region’s geopolitics in these terms? Research Director Hervé Lemahieu talks with two of the authors of the newly launched Southeast Asia Influence Index, Susannah Patton and Rahman Yaacob.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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