Eurasia News

  No Asian Century without true multilateralism . ASEAN’ s enduring strength has never been its ability to project power, but its capacity to manage diversity through restraint, process, and dialogue. In an increasingly polarised strategic environment, pressures to align more explicitly with emerging blocs such as BRICS risk diluting ASEAN ’s long-standing emphasis on autonomy and consensus. For Southeast Asia , security is less about joining alternative power centres than about preserving decision-making space amid intensifying great-power rivalry. A revitalised non-aligned approach—adapted to contemporary challenges such as economic fragmentation, digital governance, and maritime security—offers ASEAN greater flexibility to engage all major actors without becoming dependent on any. In this sense, non-alignment is not a rejection of cooperation, but a pragmatic strategy to sustain ASEAN centrality in a multipolar, yet deeply contested, regional order. Let us continue with a rat...

  A  renowned ancient Hindu temple built during the first half of the 11th century, the Preah Vihear Temple atop the Dângrêk Mountains is characterized by steep staircases, carved lintels, and intricate bas-reliefs depicting Hindu deities and mythological scenes. The magnificent architecture not only reflects the Hindu religious influence that was prominent in the Khmer Empire but also persists as the crucible of longstanding border disputes between Cambodia and Thailand . On July 24, 2025, the wrangles between the two Southeast Asian nations came to a head as deadly clashes erupted, with both sides fingering each other for initiating the assault. No sooner, global media flooded the information sphere, with some parroting that it was Thailand who struck first, and others contending that it was Cambodia who had opened the first fire. Not to be left behind, experts on ASEAN —but not from ASEAN—followed suit, hailing 1960 as the start of the dispute. As someone born in Sout...