The absence of the US president, who typically attends, adds to the already sombre backdrop of the 10-state bloc’s traditional show of unity and group handshakes.
The Association of South-East Asian Nations meetings will open on Tuesday in the Indonesian capital Jakarta under tight security. The absence of US president Joe Biden, who typically attends, adds to the already sombre backdrop of the 10-state bloc’s traditional show of unity and group handshakes.
In November, Biden attended the ASEAN summit meetings in Cambodia, and before that, in May 2022, hosted eight of the bloc’s leaders at the White House to demonstrate his administration’s commitment to their region while dealing with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.The Biden administration has also been strengthening an arc of security alliances in the Indo-Pacific, including in South-East Asia, alarming China.
Those bedrock rules have attracted a starkly diverse membership, ranging from nascent democracies to conservative monarchies, but they have also restrained the bloc from taking punitive actions against state-sanctioned atrocities. ASEAN leaders would have to decide in Jakarta whether to ask the Philippines to replace Myanmar as host for that year, said the diplomats, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of a lack of authority to publicly discuss the issues.
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