The challenges confronting the United States and Asean - including natural disasters, the scourge of ISIS, maritime tensions and rising populism - and how both sides can work together to overcome them will be discussed at a forum, beginning on Monday (Feb 11).
More than 70 experts, foreign policy specialists and young leaders from the US and South-east Asia will gather in Jakarta for the three-day US-Asean Partnership Forum which marks 42 years of close ties between them.
The behavior of many Western democracies’ leaders could do as much damage to the international order as the ongoing migration crisis or even a trade war. Beyond the cruelty of their policies, they risk strengthening governments like those in China and Russia, as it makes them seen reasonable, even reliable.
ECONOMIC growth across the South-east Asia region is expected to slow in 2019 to 5 per cent, after an estimated 5.3 per cent in 2018, according to the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales’ (ICAEW) latest Economic Insight report on the region.