Nov 8, 2023 · in Southeast Asia caused domestic backlash from ASEAN countries. In 1974, prime minister Kakuei Tanaka faced serious anti-Japanese riots when he visited Jakarta. Against this backdrop, in 1977 prime minister Takeo Fukuda delivered his Fukuda Doctrine speech in Manila, setting out three principles in Japan’s diplomacy towards Southeast Asia.

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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.

4 EAST ASIA FORUM QUARTERLY JANUARY — MARCH 2022 Issue Editors Shiro Armstrong, Director, Australia– Japan Research Centre, and Editor, East Asia Forum, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU. Lili Yan Ing, Lead Advisor (Southeast Asia Region) at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). Series Editors

Adam Posen Trump-proofing East Asia’s economy Tricia Yeoh Southeast Asia builds BRICS+ connections Dewi Fortuna Anwar Bracing for Trump 2.0 ... and more ASIAN REVIEW: Andy Yee on China’s techno-industrial transformation ECONOMICS, POLITICS AND PUBLIC POLICY IN EAST ASIA AND THE PACIFIC Vol.16 No.4 October–December 2024 $9.50 EASTASIAFORUM

Asia policy 34 ADAM TRIGGS Biden’s brief window to reform global institutions 36 DEWI FORTUNA ANWAR What Southeast Asia wants from the Biden presidency 38 MICHAEL KUGELMAN How will strategy on South Asia differ? 40 NICK BISLEY Shared burden of a new vision for the Asia Pacific 42 ROBERT N. STAVINS Domestic challenges could limit new US ...

South and Southeast Asia is a priority for collective leadership that will have to be led by East Asia where the major global geopolitical, economic and security fault lines are. A regional priority is to ensure the United States remains committed to the Western Pacific to help constrain Chinese assertiveness. A zero-sum approach of

Southeast Asia defies simple categorisation. Among its countries there are obvious contrasts: big and small, vibrant and stagnant, attractive and troubling, peaceful and unsettled, quaint and web-savvy, confronting and embracing. The contributors to this issue of the EAFQ grapple with parts of the Southeast Asian mosaic,

The East Asia Forum office is based in Australia and EAF acknowledges the First Peoples of this land — in Canberra the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people — and recognises their continuous connection to culture, community and Country.

Feb 15, 2022 · Since then, the AA has maintained an unofficial ceasefire with the Tatmadaw (Myanmar’s military regime). The AA has also started to recruit Rohingya peoples into its organisational structure and has been officially claiming to be creating an inclusive, federalist government to counter the Tatmadaw’s dominance in Rakhine.