The recent Special ASEAN-China Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Kunming, China, concluded in what many have termed “disarray” once again over the South China Sea issue, wrote Assoc Prof Bhubhindar Singh, coordinator of the Regional Security Architecture Programme at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies at RSIS at NTU, and Shawn Ho and Henrick Z Tsjeng, associate research fellows at the same programme. This latest episode, together with how ASEAN will react to an upcoming judgment in a case filed by the Philippines at the Permanent Court of Arbitration over the South China Sea disputes, as a test of ASEAN’s unity.