that have been so instrumental in Southeast Asia’s economic development over the decades. The diminishment of ASEAN’s relevance is an unacceptable outcome for the majority of the region’s states. There is value in having the steering committee, as it were, of East Asian regionalism made up of the small and middle powers of Southeast Asia. More @Wikipedia
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