Is US in or out?

Regional recognition: Rudd (second from right) receiving the WCES Patron’s Benevolence Award from Ma. Looking on are WCES co-founder and patron Tan Sri Lee Kim Yew (left) and Yeoh.

Because US president-elect Donald Trump is near impossible to read, Asian stakeholders have to adopt a wait-and-see attitude.

PRESIDENT-ELECT Donald Trump still has two months before he is sworn in as leader of the United States, but some 15,000km away from Washington DC, regional industry leaders, academics and think tanks have already begun to wonder about the possible impact of his presidency on the economy and politics in this part of the world.