Malaysian centrality in Asean 2025


Malaysia is organising not only an Asean Summit this week, but a series of summits around the 46th Asean Summit while retaining Asean centrality. — Bernama

WHILE annual Asean summits come and go, some summits sometimes stand out from the rest. Much depends on the host country’s competence, integrity, and response to external circumstances.

Thankfully, very few if any Asean summits have failed to live up to the best expectations of member states. Furthermore, regional standards tend to remain reasonably high.

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