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How the Myanmar coup and South China Sea disputes are deepening Asean’s irrelevance Illustration: Craig Stephens An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted, Arthur Miller once observed. In the same vein, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), a once promising regional organisation, is confronting its own moment of truth.
The raging civil war in Myanmar, and the festering disputes in the South China Sea, are cruelly exhausting the basic illusions of supposed Asean centrality in shaping the post-Cold-War order in Asia. Unless Asean rethinks its woefully dysfunctional decision-making structures, and develops decisive leaders in its ranks, the regional organisation will fade into irrelevance.
India s External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar.[India Times]
Terming the recently-concluded India-UK summit as transformational , External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar has said that that he was in touch with foreign ministers of G7 countries, many of whose members have been through a very severe form of COVID-19 whose intensity matches the current surge of cases in India. My message going through G7 is that this is a global challenge, everybody knows that. All of you have been through. We are going through right now. There are various factors and reasons serious and severe as it is and global pandemic requires global efforts and in the past we have contributed to that global effort, Jaishankar told ANI in an exclusive interview.
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Global pandemic requires global efforts, G7 countries have seen severe form of COVID-19: Jaishankar By Naveen Kapoor | Updated: May 05, 2021 12:05 IST
London [UK]/ New Delhi [India], May 5 (ANI): Terming the recently-concluded India-UK summit as transformational , External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar has said that that he was in touch with foreign ministers of G7 countries, many of whose members have been through very severe form of COVID-19 whose intensity matches the current surge of cases in India. My message going through G7 is that this is a global challenge, everybody knows that. All of you have been through. We are going thorough right now. There are various factors and reasons serious and severe as it is and global pandemic requires global efforts and in the past we have contributed to that global effort, Jaishankar told ANI in an exclusive interview.