Two critiques nonetheless burden America’s relations with Southeast Asia: Southeast Asians are likely to resent the American tendency to emphasise China whereas warning them towards the “China risk” lest they succumb to the affect of Beijing. People, in flip, are likely to object when Southeast Asians hedge their cooperation by tilting towards China whereas profiting from what the US can supply. Responding to American strain, Southeast Asians warn Washington, “Don’t make us select.” These and different considerations are taken up by two analysts uniquely well-qualified to debate them.
Cheng-Chwee Kuik is Professor of Worldwide Relations and Head of the Centre for Asian Research on the Institute of Malaysian and Worldwide Research within the Nationwide College of Malaysia and a nonresident Senior Fellow within the Overseas Coverage Institute of the Faculty of Superior Worldwide Research (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins College.
David Shambaugh is the Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Research, Political Science, and Worldwide Affairs at George Washington College’s Elliott Faculty of Worldwide Affairs, whose China Coverage Program he based and directs.
Every scholar has written extensively on the seminar’s subject. Current examples embrace essays by Prof. Kuik—e.g., “Explaining Hedging: The Case of Malaysian Equidistance” (in course of, 2024) and “Getting Hedging Proper: A Small-State Perspective” (2021)—and the detailed report and proposals of a Working Group on Southeast Asia led by Prof. Shambaugh, Prioritizing Southeast Asia in American China Coverage (Asia Society, 2023), which adopted his The place Nice Powers Meet: America & China in Southeast Asia (2020).
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Braindead, dogmatic academics in the Philippines. Gee I wonder where this is going.
Sound system is really bad with interfering background noise.
Well, the sound system gets better at the later stage but it helps to read the transcipt apart from listening.
It an interesting and stimulating discussion from both speakers and therefore worth the while to endure the sound system!
My take: SE Asia is really very diverse, politically, socially and economically. Therefore, a key tenet they observe is mutual respect and interference of each other. So for America is come into this region and talk about democracy, human rights and freedom of speech is problematic. Why?
Each country has its dynamics and priorities. So most countries would resent pushing these as interference into domestic politics. E.g. Singapore curtails speech on religions because of sensities. Freedom is balanced with the need for harmony.
SE Asians generally see how their neighbours run their nations as their perogatives guided by their circumstances. Trade and investment are ways to collaborate. Therefore, their see China's and US's involvement not as binary but complementary. They therefore resent the need to choose. This is the attraction and anxiety that Cheng spoke of.
The countries asserting their sovereignty rights against China’s claims to the SCS are all from Asia. It is simply nonsensical for anyone to argue that the dispute is simply about the US and China
Next time, please consider using a better sound system and adjusting the camera angle for improved quality.
1:09:25 lmao we invade cambodia cause they keep raiding our border , if mexico did the shit khmer rouge did to us along your border , will you seat and let it happen or attemp a regime change when diplomatic option fail eh ? Domino was bullshit
So many new words of threat from the two bad boys about Taiwan and Ukraine so……………this was a month ago…………