ASEAN has to take itself more seriously before asking the world to

Wishful denial of geopolitical realities will leave the bloc a bystander

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A meeting of Southeast Asian foreign ministers at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta on Oct. 27: The bloc is only muddling through amid mounting geopolitical challenges. © Reuters

Huong Le Thu is principal policy fellow at the Perth USAsia Centre, a think tank based at the University of Western Australia, and a nonresident fellow in the Southeast Asia program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

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