Commentary: Relaying the ASEAN baton from Cambodia to Indonesia

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Indonesia will take over chairing a regional grouping that is navigating through an increasingly complex geopolitical environment, says this writer.

Act, it certainly did. The chair started with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’sin January. But Myanmar’s problems proved difficult to crack - even with a leader typically sympathetic to enforcing state control.

ASEAN eventually released the ASEAN-EU commemorative statement - in which"most members strongly condemned the war in Ukraine". Despite its perceived closeness with Russia and China, Cambodia’s national position evolved from refusing to take sides to Hun Sen taking a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.was a new litmus test for ASEAN unity on an issue that the group would prefer never to discuss openly.

Cambodia scored one up with Ukraine signing onto the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia. A comprehensive strategic partnership with the United States and India balanced the ASEAN-China and ASEAN-Australia comprehensive strategic partnerships that were awarded a year ago. Here again, ASEAN appeared to deliver a balance of power.

 

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