Southeast Asia CRUSHES Western Hegemony | J. Pang & N. Kumada

Originally published on 25 July 2024.
[Part 1 of 2] Look at who's throwing out Western notions of superiority faster than any of them can say Kuala Lumpur. For years, Europeans have been belittling ASEAN for not being as integrated as the EU. Now the tables have turned. Nobody in Southeast Asia would even dream of still looking at the EU as a role-model. The block has lost all and any attraction, not just because of its increasingly undemocratic approach to micro-managing members, but also because of its absolute subservience to US interests.

ASEAN countries are now discovering that their arrangement, which does not interfere in each-others affairs, is in fact the winning strategy and the backbone of the new multipolarity. What's more, they have so much experience in handling not just former colonisers but also China that they are in a pole-position for benefitting from the new order.

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Bio:

John Pang has served in policy and thought leadership in government, business and academia with a focus on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). He was also the founding CEO of the ASEAN research institute and of the council of Southeast Asian business leaders, consulting firms and decision makers in government and business. He is interested in the reframing of the discourse of international relations, especially as it applies to China and Southeast Asia, towards the emergence of a multipolar world order. - As you might now, John is with me in the multipolar peace alliance. Links in the description.

Dr. Naoko Kumada is a Lecturer in Zhejiang University's School of International Studies. She is a social anthropologist and Myanmar specialist, studying the interaction of politics, religion, and legal order in East Asia. She received her PhD in social anthropology from the University of Cambridge and also holds an LLM in US Law from Santa Clara University.