For an organisation that chose “One Community, One Destiny” as the banner for its latest summit, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) could not have imagined a more embarrassing outcome.
The summit, attended by the foreign ministers of the 10-member bloc, was to have ended last week with an endorsement of its position on a range of regional issues, most of all on the highly charged issue of conflicting claims with China to territory in the South China Sea, which has become Asia’s biggest potential military flashpoint.
Yet when it came to it there was no final communiqué – for the first time in Asean’s 45-year history.
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