Been saying for a while that ASEAN is a largely irrelevant organization of geographically adjacent nations that share very little common interest and barely a common goal.
Anwar is probably the first regional leader to implicitly admit its irrelevance while Indonesia has always been a champion of ASEAN’s appearance of a united front made up of human rights violators and corrupt governments who are careful not to offend each other out of fear that their own dirty laundry become exposed and openly addressed.
As long as this sorry excuse of an organization can’t even resolve a conflict within its own member state decisively, it will never be the substantial economic and political union it has always wished or pretended to be.
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