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Bookmark or Share- Southeast Asia’s plastic waste problem | East Asia ForumMany Southeast Asian dumpsites are unprepared to deal with the burgeoning volumes of plastic waste. Of Thailand’s 27.8 million tons of plastic waste in 2018, at least 27 per cent was improperly disposed, including via open dumping. Much of this plastic ended up in waterways, then flowing into oceans. More than half of Indonesia’s landfills ...
- Asian regionalism: How does it compare to Europe’s?In Brief. Among the six Asian leaders (or seven if you include Australia) who attended the London meeting of the Group of Twenty (G20) on April 2 was the chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations—the first time ASEAN had been accorded this recognition in such a high-profile international forum.
- Revitalising US relations with Southeast Asia through public diplomacyA. A. A. Listen to this article. Amid the intensification of US-China rivalry, the United States has struggled to enhance its partnerships with ASEAN, enabling China to grow its presence in the region. To this end, the Biden administration should bolster its public diplomacy with Southeast Asia. ASEAN is a strategically and economically ...
- Why there are no grand alliances in Asia | East Asia ForumA. A. A. At the heart of the US–China contest in the Indo-Pacific region is a competition for influence in Southeast Asia. But beating the drum of the ‘rules-based order’ or sounding the alarm on Chinese military and economic coercion has less resonance among south-east Asian post-colonial elites than Washington thinks.
- Marcos’ new code of conduct for the South China Sea is a non-starter ...It is clear that the majority of Southeast Asian nations and China are committed to maintaining peace and stability in the SCS. Shortly after Marcos’ claims of crafting a new ‘code of conduct’, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning warned that ‘any departure from the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea ...
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