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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.

July 13, 2023
Thai FM Says He Met With Aung San Suu Kyi on Secret Myanmar Mission
By Sebastian Strangio

July 12, 2023
Laos, Cambodia Urge US Not to Send Cluster Munitions to Ukraine
By Sebastian Strangio

July 12, 2023
Thai PM Prayut Chan-o-cha Announces Retirement From Politics
By Sebastian Strangio

July 11, 2023
Australian National Returns Home After Being Freed in Vietnam
By Sebastian Strangio

July 11, 2023
ASEAN Meetings Open Under Shadow of Myanmar, Maritime Tensions
By Sebastian Strangio

July 10, 2023
Indonesia Claims Continued Myanmar Progress Ahead of Key ASEAN Meeting
By Sebastian Strangio

July 10, 2023
MFP Leader Addresses Thai Rallies Ahead of Crucial PM Vote
By Sebastian Strangio

July 07, 2023
Netherlands Announces Return of Cultural Objects to Indonesia
By Sebastian Strangio

July 07, 2023
Thailand’s Prime Ministerial Vote Set for July 13
By Sebastian Strangio

July 05, 2023
Malaysia Sets Important State Polls for August 12
By Sebastian Strangio

July 04, 2023
George Black on the Toxic Afterlife of the US War in Vietnam
By Sebastian Strangio
