Asian Updates provide incisive background and analysis of newsworthy issues and events in Asia and U.S.-Asia relations for a wide audience of journalists, business executives, policy makers, scholars, and others interested in Asia.

• The Bush Presidency: Implications for Asia
  Murray Hiebert
  
  
• Korea's 16th National Assembly Elections
  Chan Wook Park
  
  
• The 2000 Taiwan Presidential Elections
  Cal Clark
  
  
• The Thirteenth Election of India's Lok Sabha (House of the People)
  Philip Oldenburg
  
  
• Indonesia's 1999 Elections: A Second Chance for Democracy
  Edward Masters (May 1999) [160 kb]
  
  
• The Asian Economic Crisis
  Linda Y.C. Lim, Frank Ching, Bernardo M. Villegas (February 1999)
  
  
• The 1998 Sino-American Summit Robert S. Ross (June 1998)
  
  
• Hong Kong: The Challenges of Change
  Jeffrey Fischer and Hugh J. Ivory, Yi-zheng Lian, James T. H. Tang (May 1998) [287 Kb]
  
  
• India's 12th National Elections
  Ashutosh Varshney (February 1998) [94 KB]
  
  
• Growing Pains: ASEAN's Economic and Political Challenges
  (December 1997)
  
  
• The 1997 Korean Elections
  (November 1997) [150 KB]
  
  
• The 1997 Sino-American Summit
  David Shambaugh (October 1997) [79 KB]
  
  
• The Philippines at the Crossroads:Sustaining Economic and Political Reform
  Paul D. Hutchcroft (November 1996) [85 KB]