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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.

August 29, 2023
US President Joe Biden to Visit Vietnam on September 10
By Sebastian Strangio

August 29, 2023
Myanmar Junta Orders Expulsion of Timor-Leste’s Top Diplomat
By Sebastian Strangio

August 24, 2023
Hun Manet’s Cambodia: An Anatomy of Administrative Bloat
By Sebastian Strangio

August 24, 2023
US Announces Sanctions Targeting Myanmar Military’s Access to Jet Fuel
By Sebastian Strangio

August 23, 2023
Biden to Attend G20 but Miss ASEAN Meetings, White House Says
By Sebastian Strangio

August 23, 2023
Philippines Successfully Resupplies Troops On Besieged Second Thomas Shoal
By Sebastian Strangio

August 22, 2023
Former Thai PM Thaksin Returns From Self-exile as PM Vote Looms
By Sebastian Strangio

August 22, 2023
Myanmar Junta Threatens to Punish Those Holding Foreign Currency
By Sebastian Strangio

August 21, 2023
Vietnam and US to Upgrade Diplomatic Relationship Next Month, Report Says
By Sebastian Strangio

August 21, 2023
Three Candidates Approved to Run in Singaporean Presidential Election
By Sebastian Strangio

August 18, 2023
Thailand’s Pheu Thai Party Joins With Former Rival to Form Government
By Sebastian Strangio
