Welcome to Foreign Policy’s second-ever Southeast Asia Brief. If you would like to receive Southeast Asia Brief, please sign up here. Last week, it was Timor-Leste’s turn, with protests led by university students erupting in the capital of Dili on Sept. 15. Last week’s protests took place among a swell of unrest in Southeast Asia and beyond. “China-Philippines tends to be a bit cyclical,” said Gregory Poling, the director of the Southeast Asia Program and Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.