Trump’s pick of Rubio: trouble ahead for Asean’s economic powerhouse dreams?
Under the China hawk’s leadership, South-east Asia could now be seen as a political chess piece and less of an independent player valued for its economic potential
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PRESIDENT-ELECT Donald Trump is setting the stage for season two of his White House saga, as he begins assembling his top-shelf picks for the 15 federal agencies that will form his Cabinet.
The world watches intently, as the decisions of the leader of the world’s largest economy send ripples across the globe. For South-east Asia, those ripples carry particularly high stakes.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations has traditionally been seen as the golden child in the US-China trade war, and a green pasture for global behemoths seeking to diversify their supply chains and shift production away from Trump’s top tariff target.
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