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The larger context of the Obama administration’s pivot to Asia furnished the strategic opportunity for both states to build on their relationship, but it was the personal appeal of the most Southeast Asian of US presidents that defined the sensibility of the partnership.
In courting Southeast Asian states at these regional meetings, larger powers have also become better at refining their message. They now take care to centre Asean in speech while advancing their own objectives in substance.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has found himself having to articulate his government’s relationship with China a great deal lately.
If geopolitical trends were assessed the way economic projections are calculated on a quarterly basis, the global security landscape would perpetually curve upwards on the axes of time and complexity.
This is clear in both political pronouncements and the national and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) policy documents issued in recent years. It is also evident in rising capital investment. Despite global headwinds, in 2023, companies in Southeast Asia were projected to increase spending on AI solutions from US$174 million to US$646 million in 2026.
Tellingly, it says nothing of a domain – cyber – that has enabled these challenges to be asserted repeatedly. For nearly two decades, officials at the Asean secretariat, Southeast Asian governments and key private sector players have been the targets of sophisticated cyber campaigns to compromise computer systems and networks.