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Category: ASEAN at 50

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    Categories Arts & Culture ASEAN at 50

    When young people take over ASEAN

    By Jake Soriano  |  Sep 30, 2017 1:08 PM

    The meeting is a simulation. Yet, it has already taught the participants one important lesson: the idea of consensus, and how difficult it can be to reach, in the trademark decision-making process of ASEAN.

    asean, ASEAN youth

  • laos xi jinping.jpg
    Categories ASEAN at 50 Commentary

    Laos and Cambodia: The China Dance

    By By Johanna Son  |  Sep 29, 2017 7:35 PM

    BANGKOK – Laos and Cambodia are often seen as little more than political twins who have chosen to reap economic benefits from China in exchange for their loyalty to the Middle Kingdom – and choosing this alliance over keeping consensus with their ASEAN family.

    ASEAN50

  • PH Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi..jpg
    Categories ASEAN at 50 Commentary

    ASEAN-China Ties: Ticking Time Bomb or ‘Asian’ World Order?

    By Bo Yuan  |  Sep 20, 2017 12:24 PM

    NINGBO, China – It is disturbingly obvious that the ASEAN states do not – and will not – possess the same enormous politico-economic clout that China has to be able to accommodate the West while at the same time strive to reshape a world order dominated by Western hegemony.

    ASEAN50

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    Categories ASEAN at 50 News

    Asean hopes to salvage RCEP with recalibrated offers

    By Johnna Villaviray Giolagon  |  Sep 12, 2017 8:15 AM

    Countries participating in a mammoth Asean-led regional free trade agreement are making a fresh pitch to salvage the deal with new proposals on the level of trade they are willing to liberalize.

    ASEAN50, RCEP

  • ASEAN Economic Ministers in Manila.jpg
    Categories ASEAN at 50 News

    Trade ministers finalizing RCEP outline

    By Johnna Villaviray Giolagon  |  Sep 10, 2017 9:28 PM

    Regional trade ministers are finalizing the key elements of a mammoth free trade deal that the Philippines is working to substantially conclude this year.

    Asean Economic Ministers, ASEAN50

  • ASEAN Heinrich Boll.jpg
    Categories ASEAN at 50 News

    PODCAST: 50 years of ASEAN: Still waiting for social and ecological justice

    By Johanna Son for Heinrich Boll Stiftung  |  Aug 14, 2017 7:43 PM

    Within 50 years of existence, ASEAN has made progress on environmental policies – at least on paper.

    asean, environment, haze agreement

  • ASEAN Foreign Ministers Aug. 5, 2017. Photo from ASEAN2017.ph.jpg
    Categories ASEAN at 50 Commentary

    PH chairs ASEAN 50: Congratulations, China

    By Lauro L. Baja, Jr.  |  Aug 11, 2017 6:29 PM

    After reading the Joint Communique of the 50th anniversary of ASEAN, together with other documents and accounts of meetings, three narratives come to mind.

    ASEAN50

  • ASEAN China
    Categories ASEAN at 50 Editor's Pick FACT CHECK News

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Timeline of the ASEAN and China Code of Conduct in the South China Sea

    By Contributed by Charmaine Deogracias  |  Aug 09, 2017 8:35 PM

    Timeline of key events dating back to 1992, when the goal of having a COC in the South China Sea was first set.

    ASEAN2017, ASEAN50

  • wang Yi and Cayetano at teh Asean gala dinner.jpg
    Categories ASEAN at 50 Commentary

    A COC that would legitimize China’s artificial islands in the Spratlys

    By Ellen T. Tordesillas  |  Aug 07, 2017 11:17 PM

    Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Sunday that he and the 10 foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have approved the framework for the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea.

    asean, Code of Conduct SCS, South China Sea

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    Categories ASEAN at 50 Editor's Pick News

    China, PH urged to ‘abide’ by Arbitral Tribunal decision

    By Arianne Christian Tapao  |  Aug 07, 2017 10:51 PM

    What the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign ministers dared not mention, their three dialogue partners did.

    asean, Japan, North Korea, South China Sea

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