Author: Veronika Saraswati, Global Development Research Center, Director As manufacturing integration between ASEAN and China deepens, the relationship is generating both significant opportunities and new strategic dilemmas. Expanding industrial cooperation has accelerated ASEAN’s participation in emerging sectors such as electric vehicles, renewable energy, and digital commerce. At the same time, the region finds itself navigating increasing geopolitical pressures. Against t

Author: Veronika Saraswati, Global Development Research Center, Director The global economic landscape is entering a multipolar era characterized by a shift in the manufacturing center of gravity from the West to the East. Amidst the uncertainty of advanced countries' protectionist policies, Southeast Asia (ASEAN) is emerging as the new epicenter of economic growth as well as a space for close integration and collaboration between ASEAN and China. While global attention is fo

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