Deep in the SEA with Mirko Giordani

Deep in the SEA with Mirko Giordani

I have lived my entire life in the West and I love it. I love Europe and I love my country, Italy. However, I am feeling it is time to embark in discovering the most interesting region in the world. Middle East? America? China? No, I want to explore Southeast Asia and India and their diversity, their cultural melting polt, their economic and political experiments that are far away from the attention of western media. In fact, when our media speak about Asia, they mean only China. Mainstream western media are completely forgetting Southeast Asia and India, two of the most young, diverse and driven regions in the world. The western world can’t allow anymore to forget about more than two billion of people.

Episodes

Australia needs to counter China with AUKUS - With Carlyle Thayer

October 17, 2021 • 16 mins
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The consequences of AUKUS over Southeast Asia geopolitics - With Carlo Fong Luy

October 14, 2021 • 12 mins
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The Philippines' presidential candidates and their foreign policies

October 14, 2021 • 27 mins
The Philippines
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Diplomatic isolation for Myanmar's military junta? - With Marta Nuevo Falguera

October 12, 2021 • 13 mins
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Will the Talibans destabilize (again) India? - With Akshobh Giridharadas

September 5, 2021 • 27 mins
Mirko Giordani interviewed Akshobh Giridharadas on the threats on India posed by the Talibans.
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Blood in the street of Myanmar - With Marta Nuevo Falguera

March 3, 2021 • 12 mins
There is blood, too much blood, in the streets of Myanmar.

A crisis like the one in Myanmar will eventually affect Southeast Asia’s democracies and ASEAN’s stability unless regional members mediate.
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Myanmar's democracy is teetering on the edge of a cliff - With Moe Thuzar

February 6, 2021 • 21 mins
After five years of apparent democracy, Myanmar has just gone backwards in only one day. We have tried to understand how the country, under the rule of Aung San Suu Kyi, has arrived at that point and how will be in the future, with the help of Moe Thuzar, fellow at the ISEAS in Singapore.
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Having a portfolio of investments in SEA? Absolutely yes! - With Paul Podolsky

January 17, 2021 • 19 mins
Paul Podolsky, a former Senior Portfolio Strategist at Bridgewater Associates, has helped us to understand why it is better off to have a financial foot into Southeast Asia.
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Why India didn't join the RCEP? - With Akshobh Giridharadas

January 11, 2021 • 29 mins
American politics is dominating the news today, but the future will be more and more Asian. Here we anticipate times, and it seems to us quite legit to understand why the Indian colossus hasn't joined the most significant free trade agreement in the world, the RCEP.

Akshobh Giridharadas has one idea or two about it and he has explained to us in a fantastic podcast.
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The EU is definitely the most reliable partner for ASEAN - With Ambassador Driesmans

December 25, 2020 • 20 mins
The EU is definitely the most reliable partner for ASEAN - With Ambassador Driesmans by Mirko Giordani
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Italy is in delay, but it is catching up in its relationship with ASEAN - With Valerio Bordonaro

December 25, 2020 • 28 mins
Italy is in delay, but it is catching up in its relationship with ASEAN - With Valerio Bordonaro by Mirko Giordani
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Italy and the West must pay attention of what's happening in the ASEAN - With Ambassador Galanti

December 19, 2020 • 26 mins
As the only Italian and European podcast that deals with SEA and India, I am proud to host Lorenzo Galanti, Ambassador of Italy to Thailand, Cambodia and Laos. We have discussed on the importance for Italy, but in general for the Western world, to acknowledge the fundamental strategic importance of the Indo-Pacific region.
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ASEAN will go green, but at its schedule - With Septia Buntara Supendi

December 19, 2020 • 20 mins
In the post-pandemic world, the attention towards a fair and green transition will grow. ASEAN countries have lifted millions of people out of poverty thanks to cheap energy from coal and oil. The coal trade is rejuvenating, and new refineries are being built in the region. However, Southeast Asia will go green in the future. However, Septia Buntara Supendi, an energy expert, told Deep in the SEA a harsh reality: in the least devel...
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Can renewables power ASEAN economies? - With Randy Giveans

December 8, 2020 • 18 mins
Can renewables power ASEAN economies? - With Randy Giveans by Mirko Giordani
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Business as usual between US and China under Biden - With Joshua Kurlantzick

December 3, 2020 • 10 mins
Business as usual between US and China under Biden - With Joshua Kurlantzick by Mirko Giordani
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Japan might be the "Third Way" that ASEAN is searching between US and China - With Alessio Patalano

December 2, 2020 • 25 mins
Japan has established itself to be a leading force in Southeast Asia. Although it is not "showing muscles" like China or the US, Japan is fundamental for the region's capacity building and its economic development. Japan offers a less confrontational approach and it represents a suitable "Third Way" vis-a-vis the turf war between the two superpowers.
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ASEAN is at the center of the RCEP architecture - With Carlyle Thayer

November 19, 2020 • 10 mins
ASEAN is at the center of the geopolitical feud between the US and China. Little will change under Biden Administration, but in the meanwhile, it has joined the largest trade agreement in the world, the RCEP. How will this influence ASEAN's relationship with China? Will the US catch up with the geopolitical and economic clout the Dragoon is building on Southeast Asia. Carlyle Thayer, a friend and usual guest of Deep in the SEA, has...
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A Nato-style alliance in Southeast Asia: no way it can happen - With Douglas Paal

September 23, 2020 • 21 mins
Maybe Mark Esper didn't say precisely that ASEAN need to evolve into a Nato-style alliance, but that was the sense practically. However Douglas Paal, a great friend of this podcast, said that only ignorant American policy makers and analysts can believe in such an alliance. When Dulles tried to dictate security policy in the region, he refused to send air conditioning appliances to the US Embassy in Bangkok because he believed that...
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In Southeast Asia the Belt & Road is not going pretty well - With Claire Chu

September 23, 2020 • 19 mins
This podcast has risen in popularity when we started to discuss whether or not the Belt & Road projects in SEA were facing a political and social backlashes. We have explored the possibilities that provider of more compliant investments, such as the US, Europe or Japan, could step up and oust China as the principal investor in the region.
Together with Claire Chu, a senior analyst of RWR Advisory Group, we have explored further the ...
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Indonesia and China: a tale of a difficult relationship - With Dewi Fortuna Anwar

September 23, 2020 • 19 mins
China is a global superpower, but Indonesia is the biggest country in Southeast Asia and the most important economy. Whatever deal China wants to carry on in the region, Indonesia is there and it must be involved in certain ways. Despite Indonesia doesn't have particular clashes over China's 9-dash line, the relationship between the two countries has been tense in the past.
The Chinese minority in Indonesia has suffered racism and d...
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