Can 10 countries with different cultures, traditions, languages, political systems and levels of economic development act in concert to expand their collective potential? That’s the question with which the Association of Southeast Asian Nations has wrestled for decades.
Judging by their leaders’ ambitious vision for cooperation, the answer may be yes.
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