FREE ASEAN | FREE PRESS: OPINION-ACADEMIA: Myanmar crisis: Is this the beginning of the end of ASEAN?

Members of the anti-coup Karenni Nationalities Defense Force (KNDF) train on Oct. 16, 2021 at the group’s base camp in the forest near Demoso in Kayah state, Myanmar. (AFP/Stringer)

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A region that’s long been accustomed to natural disasters is now suffering from seismic activity of the diplomatic kind – one that threatens to break up the regional architecture of Southeast Asia.

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The tectonic rift at the foundation of ASEAN continues to worsen, with the interests of the more democratic-leaning founding members on one hand and those of more recent authoritarian member states on the other.

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The question before us is: If ASEAN continues to pull itself apart and sinks into irrelevance, what will take its place?

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Kasit Piromya (The Jakarta Post)
Bangkok   ●   Thu, February 3, 2022

This article was published in thejakartapost.com with the title “Myanmar crisis: Is this the beginning of the end of ASEAN? “.

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