Why South and South-East Asia must cooperate to prevent a new Cold War amid US-China rivalry

The AUKUS alliance is the latest US move to counter China, and this steadily militarising rivalry could turn South and South-East Asia into frontline states. As China's rise continues unabated, it is hardly a secret that the United States is reorienting its grand strategy to counter China in all domains, with the Aukus announcement as its latest manifestation. Washington's goal is to prevent the emergence of China as a peer competitor and retain (or recover) US global dominance. The steadily militarising US-China rivalry threatens to roil South and South-East Asia and could convert it into a set of "frontline states"….