<h4>ASEAN On Life Support</h4>
<p><strong><a href="https://openlife.ng/">OpenLife Nigeria</a></strong> has reliably gathered that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN, &#8220;has lost its much-touted centrality and is frankly on life support as an autonomous multilateral platform.</p>
<p>These are the recent views of Michael Vatikiotis.</p>
<p>The respected public affairs analyst noted that the plans of the President of the United States of America, Joe Biden to skip the summit of the group&#8217;s leaders that begins on Sept. 5, is a pointer to how disunited the group has become.</p>
<p>According to him, Biden&#8217;s plan to boycott the summit is because the bloc is deeply divided due to clashing interests and concerns about China, democracy, security and other issues.</p>
<p>The author of &#8220;Blood and Silk: Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia&#8221; argues that ASEAN must find ways to revive effective multilateral cooperation.</p>
<p>Otherwise, he warns, there is little chance that the bloc can act to preserve peace in the region, its fundamental mission.</p>
<p>&#8220;There is an urgent need for more contact and understanding in a region vastly more challenged than it was even five years ago,&#8221; he writes.</p>

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