Jonathan Stromseth has been named Lee Kuan Yew Chair in Southeast Asia Studies in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. Stromseth will be a full-time senior fellow in the Center for East Asia Policy Studies, and will hold a joint appointment with the John L. Thornton China Center.

At Brookings, Stromseth’s research will focus on how Southeast Asia is responding to the rise of China and the policy implications of this dynamic for the United States. He will also examine democratic consolidation in Myanmar and economic and governance reform in Vietnam.

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Route to more power for China's Xi runs through remote Guizhou. In an article from Reuters, Cheng Li provides insight on Chen Min'er, the Guizhou party secretary.

U.S. and China on THAAD. Jonathan Pollack is quoted in a piece from the Associated Press on how the THAAD missile defense system could impact on regional relations.

An economist on China. China Daily profiles David Dollar, who has spent a lifetime studying China, including nearly a decade living and working in China as a professor, World Bank official, and U.S. Treasury emissary.