Should Southeast Asia Try to Pick Up the Pieces On IPEF?
Stephen Olson
The US is likely to pull out of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework. But the remaining members should be able to advance the framework.

Stephen Olson
The US is likely to pull out of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework. But the remaining members should be able to advance the framework.
Daljit Singh
Washington’s involvement in wars in the Middle East will intensify anti-US sentiment in Southeast Asia, and divert US bandwidth and military resources from the Indo-Pacific.
Hoang Thi Ha|William Choong
Southeast Asia is unlikely to be a priority in Trump’s foreign policy agenda, but the region will need to strategise its response to the President-elect’s trade and security stances, and his transactional approach.
Angel Hsu
VinFast, the electric vehicle manufacturer from Vietnam, is making inroads into the US. This would help, in not an insignificant way, the US to attain its climate change goals.
Stephen Olson
Amid intensified Sino-US competition, Southeast Asia countries are mistakenly seen as pawns on the geopolitical chessboard. In reality, they possess a fair degree of agency.
Lee Sue-Ann|William Choong
Southeast Asia can expect regional tensions to rise amid growing Sino-US competition. To preserve regional stability, Southeast Asian countries should work more closely with middle powers.
Daljit Singh
There are broadly two schools of thought regarding the geostrategic policies of former US President Donald Trump if he returns to the White House. One focuses on his unpredictability and isolationist tendencies, the other on his desire to bolster deterrence.
Joanne Lin
President Joe Biden is, once again, not attending the ASEAN-US Summit. Though this is understandable given the upcoming election, the US seems to be losing ground in Southeast Asia amid growing Chinese influence.
Stephen Olson
If Harris becomes the next US president, ASEAN will not share her values-based approach to trade, which she sees as a tool to advance non-trade objectives.
Lee Sue-Ann|William Choong
Data from a multi-year trend analysis of Southeast Asian perceptions of China suggest that the region remains apprehensive about China’s growing power and influence. Yet in the face of greater uncertainty over the future of the United States’ leadership role in the region, the preference has been to try to keep the peace with China.