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...

  C ontemporary international relations are marked by increasingly intense strategic competition between the West, led by the United States , and the People’s Republic of China , while Russia simultaneously seeks to preserve or expand its presence in regions of vital importance. This confrontation goes beyond purely economic dimensions and encompasses political and security aspects, with a focus on key resources, transport routes and sensitive regions. Such processes affect the distribution of power in the western hemisphere and require careful monitoring of regional developments. The administration of President  Donald J. Trump  responded to these challenges through a combination of diplomatic initiatives, economic instruments and carefully calibrated pressure, aimed at safeguarding US interests in the region and managing the influence of other global actors. In the context of Latin America, and especially Venezuela, the approach centred on maintaining stability and coo...