This is going to create challenges when it comes to security and relationships between communities. Read more at straitstimes.com.
International affairs scholar Joseph Liow said there have been extremist groups in South-east Asia motivated by events in the Middle East.
He was speaking during a question-and-answer session on Wednesday, at the Institute of Policy Studies’ 13th IPS-Nathan Lecture Series, on Navigating Uncertainty: Our Region in an Age of Flux. He had revealed on Oct 31 that US officials had questioned Malaysia’s envoy over the country’s refusal to condemn the actions of Hamas and label the group as terrorists.
“It was an issue 20 years ago, right? The Malaysian government was very keen on furthering their relationship with the United States, but the people were very anti-US because of the Iraq invasion, and they had to manage it,” he recalled. The challenge for Asean is how it can “advance the collective interests of disparate member states against the backdrop of a Global Order in a state of flux”.
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