ASEAN proves its centrality in a volatile 2020: Diplomat
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14/02/2021
09:42
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Nguyen Quoc Dung, Deputy Foreign Minister of Vietnam and Head of Vietnam’s ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM), has penned an article reviewing the ASEAN centrality in the year 2020.
Nguyen Quoc Dung, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam.
Below is the full text of his article.
“2020 drew to a close with complex and multidimensional upheavals that have not been witnessed in the regional and global politics and economy in a long time. As Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc put it, the “ASEAN 2020 ship” has navigated through “rough sea and tumultuous storms of the COVID-19 pandemic, but rocked by economic recessions, disrupted trading activities, and growing strategic competition between major powers in the world that is playing out right within the region.