A number of key projects such as the China-ASEAN Information Harbor, and the digital platform of China-Europe Railway Express and the China-Arab Online Silk Road is making good progress, and the DBAR Big Earth Data Platform has realized multilingual data sharing. The construction of the Belt ...
it did appear to be ASEAN-led and ASEAN-centric in every aspect. While the summit took place in the U.S., ASEAN came first in the title of the joint statement, which emphasized at the start the importance of
with leaders or representatives from the 10 ASEAN countries, as well as China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, New Zealand, Russia and the US, gathering in Vientiane, the capital of Laos. During the 27th China-ASEAN Summit on Thursday, leaders of China and ASEAN...
It seems to have appeared on his wrist around the time of the ASEAN conference in early October and is seen again when he testified before the Foreign Interference Commission. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wearing multiple threads while attending the ASEAN-Canada special Summit on October 10, 2024...
Economically, the U.S. is striving to intensify competition with China through the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework. Besides core U.S. allies and partners Japan, South Korea, Australia and India, seven of the 10 ASEAN members have chosen to take part. While the IPEF does not offer such prac...
Part of that fast growth is because of ASEAN’s demographics: It has the world’s third-largest labor force of more than 600 million people. That’s behind China and India, but ahead of the European Union and the United States.
Harris has stepped in as a surrogate for the president at world gatherings. She attended the2023 ASEAN summit in Biden’s place. Importantly for European allies, Harris stood in for Biden at the annual Munich Security Conference in 2022, when shevoiced support for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Ze...
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Another complicating factor is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which goes to great lengths to not get involved in China/U.S. rivalry, despite being a major battleground for influence between the two sides. The Quad communique was very careful to give a nod to ASEAN:...
ASEAN has been relegated from being in the ‘driver’s seat’ in the Asia Pacific to the ‘passenger’s seat’ in the Indo-Pacific. The ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific is a limited response out to avoid being sidelined by the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue. The Indo-Pacific suffers from...