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Southeast Asia has emerged as an important region for strategic and economic competition, as major powers seek to deepen regional integration and connectivity while also protecting their own security interests. Last month, the NCAFP held its first US-Japan-ASEAN Track II Dialogue over a series of video teleconferences to explore opportunities and challenges for engagement in the region and the role of ASEAN in the current international environment.
Participants from the US, Japan and ASEAN countries discussed how they envision the future of the rules-based order against the backdrop of deteriorating US-China relations and provided policy recommendations for how to strengthen existing regional security architecture amid increasing major power rivalry.