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Sustained de-escalation of conflict in Southeast Asia is generally incremental, face-saving, and intentionally quiet
In an era where coercive diplomacy and geopolitical grandstanding are being used at an ever-increasing rate, the recent Cambodia-Thailand-Philippines trilateral in Cebu delivered something infinitely rarer: a quiet but credible effort at regional peacebuilding through the very mechanisms of the ASEAN.
This column explores how President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., eschewing…
