DECRYPTION – The ASEAN summit receives Joe Biden and Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang.
The summit of the ten countries of ASEAN (or Anase, in French, Association of Southeast Asian Nations) organized in Cambodia will benefit from all the more attention as it welcomes this weekend two important visitors : US President Joe Biden and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. The main absentee at this meeting, a prelude to the G20 next week in Indonesia, will be Europe.
ASEAN represents 8% of world trade, is home to 650 million inhabitants, young on average, increasingly urban and connected, but very disparate economically and politically.
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The economic alliance – which on Friday reached an agreement in principle to integrate East Timor into the organization – is on the front line of the fallout from tensions between China and the United States, its main trading partners. Its member states, which fear being used as pawns by the two great powers in their fight for regional influence, walked on eggshells during the recent…
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