South-East Asia’s regional club faces its greatest tests yet
Credibility trumps consensus as ASEAN attempts to remain relevant
FOR A SECULAR grouping, the summitry of the ten-member Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), which this week it is Brunei’s turn to host, has a decidedly sacramental quality to it. For one, in non-pandemic years there is always a cathedral—some shiny convention centre, often freshly built. And there is a creed to which all bow, the “ASEAN way”.
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