LAM Peng Er <br/><br/>
Closer ASEAN-Japan relations amid great power transition in the 21st century?/ 
Lam Peng Er 
 -  2023 
<br/><br/> While Japan and the ASEAN states can celebrate the Golden Jubilees of the ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation and the Fukuda Doctrine, there is no room for complacency. Both sides must assiduously cultivate a closer and comprehensive relationship in the decades ahead for mutual support and benefits. A cordial and cooperative relationship will boost the capability of Japan and the ASEAN states to have greater agency to act autonomously in a new epoch threatening to suck them into the vortex of a New Cold War bipolarity between the competing US and Chinese superpowers. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>ASEAN--JAPAN