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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.

February 20, 2024
Philippines to Probe Claims of Chinese Cyanide Use at Scarborough Shoal
By Sebastian Strangio

February 20, 2024
Former Thai PM Thaksin Freed on Parole After 6 Months
By Sebastian Strangio

February 16, 2024
Is Southern Thailand Moving Toward Peace?
By Sebastian Strangio

February 16, 2024
Philippines Deploys Warship to Palawan Island, Facing South China Sea
By Sebastian Strangio

February 16, 2024
Indonesia’s President Congratulates Successor-elect Following Decisive Victory
By Sebastian Strangio

February 15, 2024
Thai Activists Arrested After Royal Motorcade Confrontation
By Sebastian Strangio

February 15, 2024
Prabowo Subianto Claims Victory in Indonesian Presidential Election
By Sebastian Strangio

February 14, 2024
What Thaksin Shinawatra’s Parole Says About Thai Politics
By Sebastian Strangio

February 14, 2024
Myanmar’s NUG Condemns Military Conscription Drive, Vows to Resist
By Sebastian Strangio

February 13, 2024
Jack Adamović Davies on the Rise and Rise of Cambodia’s Prince Group
By Sebastian Strangio

February 13, 2024
Detained Former Thai PM on List of Eligible Parolees, Reports Say
By Sebastian Strangio
