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Episode 1: Thomas Daniel - ASEAN - Malaysia prepares for Trump 2.0
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Mr. Daniel is a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy and Security Studies program at the Center of Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)- Malaysia. His interests lie in the strategic-security challenges of Southeast Asia, including the impacts of major power dynamics on the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN).
On 20 January, with the inauguration of Donald Trump as President the United States proclaimed that world’s biggest and most powerful country was getting off the globally interconnected, rules-based system of which it was an integral part the day before.
American national interests are now going to be paramount in dealing with the world, the incoming President said, and America alone would decide and enforce its ideas of what was good for America, with financial and trade sanctions, and military power if necessary.
How is the rest of the world going to react to this new America? How will Trump 2.0’s changes impact the role of the Association of South East Asian States (ASEAN) of which Malaysia is the chair this year. And more importantly, what will be the reaction from China, the world’s other superpower and the only country that has the economic and military means to give pause to America’s might makes right rules.
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