Given President Duterte’s striking display of prescience in his early foreign policy pivot towards regional integration with Southeast and North Asia, his chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) when it turns a half-century in 2017 couldn’t have come at a more fortuitous time for this regional bloc amid the likelihood of its chief security and economic ally of choice—the United States—going isolationist and inward-looking under a Donald Trump presidency.
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