Asean countries should facilitate US-China dialogue, says scholar


KUALA LUMPUR: Asean countries should take the initiative to speak out and call on both the United States and China to have dialogues with one another, says an eminent scholar.

Prof Kishore Mahbubani (pic), a Distinguished Fellow of the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore (NUS), said it was important for Asean countries to be less passive, and instead, switch gears to urge both superpowers to talk more with each other.

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