Indonesia potentially set to take on China and claim leadership of ‘moderate Islam’
Indonesia has, until now, walked a fine line between the US and China, including its refusal to speak out on the plight of the Uighurs.
James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, a syndicated columnist and the author of the blog, The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer. A veteran, award-winning foreign correspondent whose career focused on ethnic and religious conflict, James focuses at RSIS on political and social change in the Middle East and North Africa, the impact of change in the Middle East and North Africa on Southeast and Central Asia and the nexus of sports, politics and society in the Middle East and North Africa and Asia.
Indonesia has, until now, walked a fine line between the US and China, including its refusal to speak out on the plight of the Uighurs.
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