Asean must get back to basics ahead of US summit: Jakarta Post contributors


US Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivers remarks at the Universitas Indonesia on Dec 14, 2021. - AFP

JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network): The world order as it is reeks, rather ironically, of a long string of C's. Perhaps that is the "best" that a "world order" can produce anyway: C's.

Why? No matter how altruistic a country can be, the world just does not appreciate what a country has done. If anything, the world tends to forget amazing gestures of magnanimity.

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