ASEAN must anchor regional security through co-operation

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ASEAN makes South-East Asian nations larger than the sum of their parts, as together they enjoy more diplomatic and geostrategic leverage. Indonesia, for example, with the wind of ASEAN behind it, successfully navigated the geopolitical minefield of hosting the G20 summit in Bali in 2022. Indonesia also led ASEAN in negotiations of a regional free trade agreement that in 2019 successfully brought China, Japan and South Korea into the pact for the first time, even as protectionism was on the rise elsewhere. Comprehensive regional security The summit with Australia will undoubtedly amplify the rhetoric of ASEAN’s role as a focus...