OPINION

Is Asean now a new 'balancing wheel'?

Oped, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 15/07/2025

» Last week's Asean Foreign Ministers' Meeting reflects its continued relevance in an increasingly unstable world. Amid US unilateralism and US President Donald Trump's tariff nationalism, Asean has reasserted itself as a balancing wheel -- a stabilising force on which its dialogue partners can still depend.