Timor-Leste after Separation

Timor-Leste is no Failing State but 11th ASEAN Member-in-Waiting. This is all grist to the mill for many a Timor-watcher who was consigned the country to an "arc of instability" alongside Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. (Bobby Anderson: 2018) If the country continues on the current trajectory of waste, corruption and fraud in public spending it will be a failed state in less than five years (Fredrik Galtung: 2017)