ASEAN’s new math: Washington should think addition, not subtraction
Trying to push China and Russia from this dynamic region of the Global South — whose secret sauce is inclusion — will be self-defeating.
Trying to push China and Russia from this dynamic region of the Global South — whose secret sauce is inclusion — will be self-defeating.
Antony Blinken made a pitch in Jakarta this week, but it likely fell on deaf ears.
Both the United States and ASEAN need to find ways to temper the intensifying security competition in Asia.
The administration is going to have to do a lot more than to troll China to show it’s diplomatically engaged with the region.
The once vaunted ‘responsibility to protect’ doctrine faded away after the Libyan intervention. There’s a reason for that.