ASEAN, Still Toothless, Is Losing Its Faith in the U.S.

In late July, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Manila for the annual ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting with a message Southeast Asian officials have heard, in one form or another, for a decade. The United States, he assured them, remains a committed Indo-Pacific partner—devoted to Southeast Asia, dependable, and invested in the region’s security and prosperity.

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