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Sebastian Strangio
Sebastian Strangio is Southeast Asia editor at The Diplomat.
In 2008, he began his career as a reporter at The Phnom Penh Post in Cambodia, and has since traveled and reported extensively across the 10 nations of ASEAN. Sebastian’s writing has appeared in leading publications including Foreign Affairs, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The New York Times, The Diplomat, and Nikkei Asian Review, among many others. He is the author of “Hun Sen’s Cambodia” (Yale, 2014), a path-breaking examination of Cambodia since the fall of the Khmer Rouge, and “In the Dragon’s Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century“ (Yale, 2020).
Alongside his journalistic work, Sebastian has also consulted for a wide variety of economic risk firms and non-government organizations, and is quoted frequently in the international media on political developments in Southeast Asia. Sebastian holds a B.A. and Master’s degree in international politics from The University of Melbourne. He currently lives in Adelaide.
You can get in touch with Sebastian via Twitter, Facebook, or email.

September 27, 2024
Myanmar Military Calls on Opponents to Enter Political Dialogue
By Sebastian Strangio

September 26, 2024
Thailand’s King Endorses Marriage Equality Bill
By Sebastian Strangio

September 26, 2024
Indonesia Officially Lodges Application to Join Trans-Pacific Trade Pact
By Sebastian Strangio

September 25, 2024
Japan To Downgrade Diplomatic Ties With Myanmar Junta, Report Says
By Sebastian Strangio

September 25, 2024
Vietnam’s To Lam Set to Meet With President Biden
By Sebastian Strangio

September 24, 2024
Singapore Opens Corruption Trial of Former Transport Minister
By Sebastian Strangio

September 24, 2024
Parsing the Philippines’ ‘Pivot’ to China Under Rodrigo Duterte
By Sebastian Strangio

September 24, 2024
Rights Groups Condemn Myanmar Prisoner Executions, Warn More to Come
By Sebastian Strangio

September 23, 2024
Cambodia Pulls Out of Economic Agreement With Vietnam and Laos
By Sebastian Strangio

September 20, 2024
Malaysian King to Seek Chinese Funding for Singapore Rail Link
By Sebastian Strangio

September 20, 2024
Thailand Publishes New Draft Bill to Regulate Use, Sale of Cannabis
By Sebastian Strangio
