Iran War Hurts ASEAN, But It Still Needs the US

Iran War Hurts ASEAN, But It Still Needs the US

Washington retains its centrality in the emerging architecture of deterrence to China

By: Manuel L. Quezon III

Moribund markets roared back to life in Southeast Asia with the news on April 7 of a US-Iran two-week ceasefire. Days ahead of the ceasefire, even a hitherto big Donald Trump booster like the Hoover Institution’s Niall Ferguson had concluded: “Time is not on the side of an overstretched hegemon, because the economic costs of war …

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