CHANGING gear and shifting from emergency planning to mainstream policymaking can be a tricky affair.
While under pressure by an outbreak of a pandemic, you are forced to think in long and bold terms. Once the calamity subsidies or just keeps hitting as hard as before but at the same time it somehow becomes internalised as part of the “new normal”, policymakers tend to revert to the old standard working modalities.
The ambition of a “building forward better” might still be officially there but then in the reality it struggles to gain traction and keep momentum.
I am afraid this might happen in Asean and for this reason I am wondering if within bloc there is still a “collective” sense of urgency to forge ahead together what was put in the front when the pandemic struck.
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