The ASEAN, China, and the United States: Challenges to Regional Order

Temario C. Rivera

(This chapter is excerpted from the book Probing Duterte’s Foreign Policy in the New World Regional Order: ASEAN, China, and the U.S., published in 2018)

Abstract:

The ASEAN's continuing claim to “centrality” in helping dene the region's security architecture faces two important contrasting developments in the region: a strongly consolidated political leadership in China under President Xi Jinping and the unilateralist, divisive leadership style of President Donald Trump that has upended many of the established practices of American foreign policy. A continuing crucial test of ASEAN's centrality lies in its ability to push through a binding Code of Conduct on the South China Sea (SCS).

In addressing the SCS dispute, the ASEAN and China may consider some broad policy guidelines distilled from ongoing negotiations and related policy debates: First, the viability of bilateral talks as a negotiating

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