Southeast Asian nations’ interest in BRICS signifies a strategic shift that may challenge ASEAN’s cohesion and principle of ...

In this sense, the value of ASEAN is its “centrality” to the Indo-Pacific regional order. What ASEAN brings to the table is its ability to act as an “honest broker” of a diverse group of regional ...

vowing to make Asean centrality “not just an ideal”. He underscored how Hong Kong can serve as a gateway to mainland China for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, while Malaysia could ...

Maintaining the centrality of ASEAN processes will be difficult, especially as the earlier Trump administration did not even appoint an ASEAN ambassador, undermining the importance of the grouping.

The endeavour resulted in the birth of the AOIP which emphasises Asean centrality and inclusivity. Three years later, Asean inked a partnership with India, recognising it as a strategic powerhouse ...

Malaysia’s priorities for its 2025 chairmanship include strengthening Asean Centrality, fostering trust through dialogue, diplomacy, and goodwill, and expanding economic partnerships beyond ...

Tengku Zafrul also said that Malaysia seeks to make ASEAN Centrality a reality this year and make ASEAN indispensable not only to member states but to partners like Hong Kong. He said ASEAN Centrality ...

MANILA, Philippines — In his first visit to Manila as Cambodia's leader, Prime Minister Hun Manet called for Southeast Asian nations to uphold the region's centrality "especially at times of ...

Since late former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe created the Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) strategy in 2016, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations has been pivotal to connecting the fast ...

Trump’s “America First” approach, characterized by reduced multilateral engagement and a focus on unilateral gains, diminished ASEAN centrality, leaving Malaysia to navigate an increasingly ...

ASEAN embodies “unity in diversity”, prioritizing centrality, consensus and non-interference under its governance model. This approach has fostered regional stability and integration despite ...