Sunday, 14 February 2016

Obama’s Sunnylands Summit: Does ASEAN Really Matter? (Robert Manning, The Diplomat)

OK, OK, I get the symbolism, but it is a measure of how devalued the language of diplomacy can be that US President Barack Obama would hold an unprecedented summit at Sunnylands in California with ten heads of state whose countries comprise the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to talk of a “strategic partnership.”

http://thediplomat.com/2016/02/obamas-sunnylands-summit-does-asean-really-matter/

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