https://www.scmp.com/rss/509699/feed René L Pattiradjawane is a retired journalist who spent 32 years with Kompas, Indonesia’s largest newspaper. A former Hong Kong correspondent for the paper, he now serves as Chairman of the China Studies Centre Foundation, running its Centre for Chinese Studies-Indonesia and is an associate fellow with The Habibie Center, an independent think-tank established by the late President BJ Habibie. He was previously a Fellow of the EastWest Institute en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The Aukus security pact involving the United States, Australia and Britain is not the first time that Western allies have united to project security cooperation in Southeast Asia. There was the Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation (Seato), set up to combat the threat of communist ideology from China in 1954, and later, the Five Power Defence Agreement (FPDA), which still exists today and is about to mark its golden jubilee. The Five Eyes alliance, originally focused on intelligence sharing, has... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3154071/aukus-reveals-much-about-how-west-really-sees-southeast-asia?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3154071/aukus-reveals-much-about-how-west-really-sees-southeast-asia?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 28 Oct 2021 22:00:24 +0000 Saturday’s Asean summit on the Myanmar coup crisis is widely seen as a test of the bloc’s credibility, to see if it can bring an end to the lethal force used on residents in Southeast Asia’s poorest country since the military took power on February 1. In the run-up, Asean is already facing a conundrum. It has been criticised for inviting the leader of Myanmar’s ‘Tatmadaw’ military Senior-General Min Aung Hlaing, who led the putsch that brought down the democratically elected government. The... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3130885/why-asean-must-hear-myanmars-coup-mastermind-min-aung-hlaing?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3130885/why-asean-must-hear-myanmars-coup-mastermind-min-aung-hlaing?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 24 Apr 2021 00:00:23 +0000