Étiqueté : régionalisation
Face à la crise sanitaire liée au coronavirus, Christian Lechervy, ancien conseiller du président de la République pour l’Asie-Pacifique, ancien secrétaire permanent pour le Pacifique et depuis 2018 ambassadeur de France en Birmanie, analyse les réponses et les capacités – et leur différenciation – des deux principales organisations régionales de l’Asie-Pacifique, l’Association des nations d’Asie du sud-est (ASEAN) et le Forum des îles du Pacifique, mais aussi les implications géopolitiques régionales de la pandémie.
After the Covid-19 pandemic is over, we are likely to face a world in which the nations with strong foundations are stronger and the weak are further weakened. The World Bank has already predicted that 11 million additional people in East Asia and the Pacific region will fall below the poverty line, and other economic performance predictions are even more dire. In Southeast Asia, in particular, socioeconomic disparities are likely to deepen. The repercussions of Covid-19 are, in many ways, already undoing the regionalism efforts that ASEAN has been pursuing for decades.
This Background Brief considers the impact of COVID-19 on Vietnam’s role as ASEAN Chair in light of the likely postponement of a number of ASEAN-affiliated meetings to deal with regional development of Southeast Asia’s river systems and the 36th ASEAN Summit. Should Vietnam’s term as ASEAN Chair be extended into 2021?
