ASEAN Stresses Regional ‘Centrality’

China Daily

17 August 2020

Southeast Asian countries stress the importance of regional peace as well as regional “centrality” to ease the rising stormy waters between the United States and China, analysts said. “The evolving and evidently worsening Sino-US tensions could create an awkward situation for ASEAN countries that have long sought to maintain this precarious balance of keeping close economic linkages with China while trying to lock in continued US security commitment and investments in the region,” said Dr Collin Koh Swee Lean, Research Fellow at RSIS. Koh said such an economic partnership is now more crucial for ASEAN countries as they attempt to revive their respective economies while keeping the pandemic at bay.

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