Richard Maude is a senior fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute and Kevin Rudd is president of the Asia Society and a former prime minister of Australia.
Region is struggling to defend itself against new COVID outbreaks

A woman receives an injection of the COVID vaccine in Jakarta on June 10: without access to more vaccines, Southeast Asia won't be able to move past the acute phase of the pandemic. © AP
Richard Maude is a senior fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute and Kevin Rudd is president of the Asia Society and a former prime minister of Australia.