The Fuel Crisis Is Testing ASEAN’s Limits

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Southeast Asia Brief, which features my reporting from the ASEAN leaders’ summit in the Philippines. The highlights this week: From Cebu, ASEAN searches for fuel crisis solutions, opens the door a crack to Myanmar’s junta, and promises progress on the South China Sea. Plus, in Malaysia, pig farming gets political. ASEAN Struggles With Fuel Crisis Response At the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) leaders’ summit in Cebu, Philippines, over the weekend, one topic dominated the agenda: the fuel crisis. But while some constructive plans are being proposed, a coordinated response from the grouping looks doubtful….