Jonathan Frances

Jonathan is the East and Southeast Asia team’s lead analyst for stories emanating from China and Southeast Asia.

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US weight on the scale tips Indonesia’s strategic balance
Modern problems, Party solutions: 2019-nCoV in Xi’s China
Grappling with the future through the past
China’s grey zones in the East and South China Seas
Kim and Trump shaking hands at the red carpet during the DPRK–USA Singapore Summit / Da Nang summit
Why Trump will never achieve denuclearisation in Korea
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China’s digital backdoor: Huawei in Southeast Asia
Gen. Vincent K. Brooks, United Nations Commander, Combined Forces Commander, and United States Forces Korea commander, and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson stand at the North/South Korean border during a visit to the Joint Security Area(JSA), Mar. 17, 2017.
2019 forecast: inter-Korean relations on track
President Joko Widodo on Democratic Party National Leadership Meeting, 10 March 2018. Right behind him is the former President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono which is also the chairman of the party.
2019 forecast: the Indonesian general elections
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2019 forecast: China and the ‘Uyghur problem’
General Secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party Nguyen Phu Trong. / Trong
President-General Secretary: Trong’s power consolidation