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The Foundation was at the 33rd Asia-Pacific Roundtable (APR) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, this past week. Hear from Vanessa Bramwell, postgraduate student at @MasseyUni and a member of our NextGen informal diplomacy delegation about her experience #APR33 #ThinkAsia
Pak Marty: There will be two ASEAN countries in the UN Security Council next year, Indonesia and Vietnam. Before the end of the year, we should “make sure that there are no loose ends” within ASEAN that the Security Council will be taking up. (Rohingya, for example.) #APR33
Pak Marty: In 1998, there was a thinking in Indonesia that it was time to “switch off foreign policy… focus on our own internal affairs.” But actually it was the opposite, “we realized we needed to build benign regional coalitions.” #APR33
Pak Marty, sounding a tiny bit frustrated: “If we have the power of convening and the power or organizing, then let’s do something exciting.” #APR33
Pak Marty: Like a football team, ASEAN “has to be good at playing both home and away.” #APR33
“At a time when diplomacy are being reduced to Twitter-sized communications, words matter.” #APR33
Former Indonesian foreign minister Marty Natalegawa at #apr33 warning that ASEAN institutional development has stagnated, and may in practice be regressing to pre-Charter days.
.@leemakiyama explains the fundamental challenge of using bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements to regulate data flows and usage: there are very wide national interest clauses in these agreements @ISIS_MY @PerthUSAsia #APR33
Good podcast I listened to a couple weeks ago covers some of the tech developments @MohanCRaja just listed on his #APR33 panel discussion on tech rivalry & national security @ISIS_MY @PerthUSAsia
This Week - Future Consequences: #TED speakers explore gene editing, artificial intelligence, and our future, today. https://t.co/jSacBEWx3F
.@PerthUSAsia friend @MohanCRaja leads this morning’s discussion on technological rivalry and national security. #APR33 @ISIS_MY
Helpful update from PM Mahathir ar #apr33 on #Malaysia's position on #CPTPP, recognizing more trade is good for Malaysia. "Some Asian tigers have been hibernating & will wake up" @chedetofficial @DarellLeiking @imokman @saifuddinabd @MalaysiaMFA @MITIMalaysia @CanadaMalaysia
I asked Dr Mahathir about M’sian trade policy. @chedetofficial said 🇺🇸 still concerned about investor state dispute settlement and scope for affirmative action in #CPTPP. But prepared to review 🇺🇸’s position. (So at least not a “no”.) @DarellLeiking
Hong Kong is very rarely discussed on the foreign policy circuit but it’s getting a lot of namechecks at the Asia Pacific Roundtable in KL as an example of both youth power to impact politics and pushback against assertive policies by Beijing #APR33
.@chedetofficial at #APR33:
“Malaysia subscribes to the idea that nations which once may be opposed to each other should find common grounds and become partners in ventures and endeavours that would benefit both.”
#APR33 China will surely keep growing at some rate but US...is still rising. 3% growth and this 👇.
Who is winning the tech cold war? According to @bloomberg, the US by far. China has more Internet users & manufacturing value-added, but US ahead in top tech firms, chips, AI talent & more: https://t.co/kxOtHu7TYQ
Good indication of bipartisan perception in US of need to deal with China challenge #APR33
President Trump faces growing bipartisan pressure in Congress to maintain a hard line on Huawei https://t.co/vxsbz588WT via @bpolitics
I asked panel at #APR33 if we’re entering new era of internet control as govts regulate/use shutdowns & platforms comply. Prof Bridget Welsh’a reply: internet has become “contentious arena” in SE Asia and “balance has tilted from ordinary citizen to the state”
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