Asean has a strategic window of opportunity right now to act in a way that can cement its centrality in regional affairs, and showcase what an organised grouping can do for regional peace.
If it steps up, it has a chance to create a dynamic-changing possibility, however fragile and tentative, of a peace regime in North-east Asia and South Asia.
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