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https://www.iseas.edu.sg/mec-events/regional-outlook-forum-2027/The world is undergoing a deep fragmentation resulting in greater instability in the global order. This has been made worse by the intractable fractures among the major powers on a range of strategic and tactical issues. From rivalry and distrust, securing cooperation has proved difficult because of the turbulence and chaos of recent years. However, Southeast Asia’s smaller and middle powers, which are each navigating the fallout from the U.S.-China competition, implications of wars in other regions and various domestic challenges, can still seek out more continuity than discontinuity.
This year’s Forum will examine the geopolitics anchored by the two big powers as their contestation continues unabated. It will also delve into the global ramifications of artificial intelligence (AI), as the US and China compete intensively in this arena with profound implications for Southeast Asia and effective global AI governance. Our expert speakers will discuss how the region can find space for practical cooperation as smaller powers cope with these developments.
From this global sweep, we will turn to consider how individual countries in the region are pursuing stability and growth, while seeking to balance competing external factors, domestic factions and interests, or difficult political tensions. The three afternoon sessions will look at the economies of Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines; Indonesia’s development and policy challenges against its ambitions to forge a stronger global role; and Malaysia’s outlook, including on political transition and succession, as a younger generation of leaders prepares to take on the mantle of governance, and to seek cooperation amidst diversity and difference.
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The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore, Marina Bay, 7 Raffles Avenue,Singapore
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