Will Trump push Southeast Asia towards China?
Financial Times |
Parag Khanna, a geopolitical strategist and chief executive of AlphaGeo, traces America’s rocky relationship with south-east Asia to Trump aborting the US’s membership of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade area at the start of his first term. “The notion that the US can’t be trusted in the region goes back to then,” Khanna says. “ASEAN is much more multi-aligned to make sure they get the best deal for themselves.”