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US Size Matters and the ASEAN Way
The Cable, over at Foreign Policy, notes that the Obama administration is sending a sizable high-powered team to attend the upcoming APEC Summit in Singapore; it also finds it noteworthy that the side-meeting between the US and all ten ASEAN countries is finally taking place and sees it as a reaction against China's recent diplomatic successes. Back in 2007, in a Foreign Affairs piece marking ASEAN's 40th anniversary, Amitav Acharya argued that: The fact that the region's most powerful players - including China, India, and the United States - show deference to ASEAN by participating in these forums demonstrates that ASEAN still matters. Acharya lists for four 'areas of accomplishment' to explain this. First, ASEAN's relative longevity as the pre-eminent regional organization. Second, no member states have had serious armed confrontations with each other. Third, ASEAN helped bring peace to Cambodia and integrate Vietnam. Fourth, it was instrumental in getting China and other extra-ASEAN powers to
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