I think as tension rise to a certain point in the future, the ASEAN countries may have to conduct diplomacy with the Taiwan administration to try to convince them not to pull the trigger.
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No, I think Biden has been mispeaking (lots of evidence of him often doing that as well).
BUT, he has speaking out loud what was and is being discussed behind closed doors lol.
Just reverse sanctions British officials who hold assets in HK and China.
Who is going to balance US overwhelming power in the North/South Americas?
There are other aspects to it. One is threat perception where states are more likely to balance against hostile powers than friendly ones. The other is bandwagoning where the weaker state ally with stronger state due to its overwhelming power in order to gain benefits. Could end up with a situation where some members want to balance against China while others want to bandwagon.
Tiny nations are easier to govern and usually have a higher HDI, with a responsive government.
But being tiny, we end up being the convenient punching bag for our bigger neighbors, especially during elections or political popularity contests.
We believe it is best to have a balance of powers in our region and we seek their attention in our region.
Singapore will have to go with the geopolitical realities when the time comes.
: recent event, not a joke as Indonesia did try to take over us during "" in 1963
Supporters of Indonesian preacher made threats linking 9/11 attacks against S'pore
Shanmugam also found it "very interesting" that Singapore was not the only place that Somad had been denied entry.
He pointed out that Somad was denied entry into Hong Kong, Timor Leste, and several other European countries, such as the U.K., Germany and Switzerland.
"I wonder if Somad’s supporters also threatened China,
because he was refused entry into Hong Kong, and threatened the other European countries? Or is it only that Singapore gets special mention and they are brave enough to threaten Singapore, but not the others?", Shanmugam added.
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True. SCS dispute is still alive and kicking though. Until that is resolved don't expect any progress on this
Possible. However imo this can only happen seriously when China enjoys overwhelming regional military superiority. When that happens, everyone will become obedient.
Until that becomes a reality, I don't expect any serious change on ASEAN's behaviour.
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Sending weapons is a declaration of war? Russia can defend in sovereignty but it's not doing that in Ukraine. Russia isn't rushing into engagement because they would get their ass handed to them.
That can be the same for any other nation that rushes into any engagement these days. Plus Russian citizens in east Ukraine have been harmed by the Ukrainians for eight years so Russia does have good cause to do what they have done and thus is defending the sovereignty of their ethnic citizens who don’t want to be part of Ukraine anyways. Any further actions taken is done to defang these neo Nazis which to be honest, Nazi are evil no matter the nationality and unfortunately everyone knows that the azov battalion are Nazis so really, no real sympathy there. Also with the way that Russia is doing nowadays in taking the east of Ukraine bit by bit whilst managing to stabilize their economy while the west are starting to suffer real pain given that Gas, oil and food shortages are now starting to escalate in the west unless rubles are used (and we all know what that will do to the US dollar) while Russia isn’t suffering from the same seems to show Russia handing the west its ass in a silver platter. So really you could say that the west in trying to rush into a shock and awe economic engagement and thus got there asses handed to them badly. So yeah, I guess you are right in that assessment, in that those who rush into a conflict will get there asses handed to them.