China has wasted no time stepping up its audacious bid to exert more control over ASEAN following Donald Trump’s election as US president. Southeast Asian nations find themselves in an uncomfortable position.
The American President is coming to this November’s APEC summit to talk trade. His Vietnamese hosts, and their Asian partners in innovation, have some additional interests.
ASEAN turns 50 this year, but cracks in the economic partnership continue to grow. Chinese cheque book policies stoke fires of disagreement and, with the TPP lying in ruins, the partnership is in danger of falling apart.
The TPP is dead. It is time for Asian governments to step up to agreeing new arrangements that will bring a new dawn of growth, opportunity and free trade.
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