Tag: ASEAN

Daily news – February 5, 2022

AFRICA African Union: Focus on Rights, Justice at Summit. Human Rights Watch: President Macky Sall of Senegal should ensure that civilian protection, human rights, and justice...

Could minilateralism work in the South China Sea? (Huynh Tam Sang, The Interpreter)

Tensions with China over the South China Sea have prompted Indonesia to invite maritime security officials from five ASEAN member states – Brunei, the Philippines, Malaysia,...

Prospects for Cambodia’s chairing of ASEAN in 2022 (Riko Watanabe, East Asia Forum)

In October 2021, Sultan Bolkiah of Brunei handed over the chairmanship of ASEAN to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen. In 2022, ASEAN will continue to...

Singapore PM backs continued exclusion of Myanmar junta from ASEAN meetings (Reuters)

Singapore's leader said the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) should continue excluding Myanmar's junta from its meeting until it cooperates on an agreed...

Voices of concern at ASEAN over Hun Sen’s Myanmar visit (Al Jazeera)

Malaysia’s foreign minister has said that some Southeast Asian countries had reservations about last week’s visit to Myanmar by Cambodia’s leader, with concerns the...

ASEAN and the new geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific (Amitav Acharya, East Asia Forum)

Southeast Asia is no stranger to strategic competition. But its ‘new geopolitics’ is different from those that existed during the Cold War. In fighting communism,...

Australia’s Indo-Pacific fortunes are in Biden’s hands (Susannah Patton, East Asia Forum)

Australia and China both had diplomatic wins in Southeast Asia this year, particularly through the region’s Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Both Canberra...

Prospective Chinese ambassador to Indonesia Lu Kang will have sights on engaging ASEAN (Yu Zeyuan, ThinkChina)

Former foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang is slated to be the next Chinese ambassador to Indonesia. Amid US-China tensions, a post in Indonesia presents...

Cambodia is China’s leverage point on ASEAN (Davis Florick, East Asia Forum)

Chinese interference has negatively impacted Cambodian politics and allowed Prime Minister Hun Sen to lean more fully into authoritarianism. As illiberalism calcifies in Cambodia,...

ASEAN running out of time to recast role as buffer in US-China great power competition (Shuxian Luo, Brookings)

Following the latest incident in the South China Sea, in which Chinese coastguard vessels blocked and water-cannoned Philippine ships carrying resupplies to Second Thomas Shoal, the...

Biden must build stronger trade ties with ASEAN (Kevin Rutigliano, East Asia Forum)

On 26 October 2021, US President Joe Biden attended a virtual US–ASEAN summit meeting — the first time in four years that the United States engaged...

ASEAN responses to AUKUS security dynamic (Dino Patti Djalal, East Asia Forum)

When news of the AUKUS agreement broke on 16 September 2021, it caught everyone in Southeast Asia by surprise. While its understood that AUKUS...

China to buy $150b worth of agricultural goods from ASEAN, in efforts to boost ties (Shen Weiduo, Global Times)

President Xi Jinping announced on Monday several major initiatives to boost economic cooperation between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), including...

China, ASEAN establish comprehensive strategic partnership (Global Times)

China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations decided to establish comprehensive strategic partnership on Monday, a new milestone in the relations between the...

China, ASEAN expected to upgrade ties to comprehensive strategic partnership at special summit, as US provocation fails in region (Zhang Hui and Wang Wenwen,...

China and the ASEAN are expected to officially upgrade their relations to tap into more high-quality cooperation potential - including COVID-19 vaccine research -...

ASEAN’s divided response to COVID-19 (Shubhankar Kashyap and Anushka Bhattacharya, East Asia Forum)

ASEAN has been vital for achieving cooperation and economic growth in Southeast Asia. But due to the COVID-19 pandemic, health security has become the...