Foreign Secretary Enrique Manalo tells the 2025 Regional Outlook Forum, 'I believe challenging or turbulent times more often than not compel states to seek cooperation with others'
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So while this assumption may be valid to an extent, I believe it is essentially flawed, as it is hinged on the mentality of the Cold War — perhaps our nearest experience of a bipolar rivalry. But as President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. pointed out in his keynote speech at Shangri-La last year: this Cold War prism is outdated. The future of the region, if not the world, is not being set by one or two powers, but by many actors.
Nor is the toolbox for many challenges of our time in the hands of the major powers. The toolbox or toolboxes are being fashioned in the halls of multilateralism built in the 20century, as well as new corridors of engagement that have sprung out of and alongside multilateral processes. anniversary this year, stands as an enduring edifice of common purpose. Despite its deficiencies, there is no alternative for it a platform that is needed to address global challenges.
Like the UN, the ASEAN symbolizes the triumph of the will of states for peace and cooperation. Almost six decades since its establishment, ASEAN has become a major regional fulcrum that has weathered tides of crises and change, resolute to pursue a stable, predictable and rules-based environment that has allowed its populations to rise in prosperity.
But of course, this is not a given. ASEAN is a work in progress: it must continue making decisive calls and implementing far-seeing measures in order to sustain its centrality in the region.What I have been saying is basically my premise: cooperation is still the dominant leitmotif of the regional and global order. It is, and it has to be so. And I have spoken so far about its salient features of our time, when global unrest creates the need for further cooperation.
For nearly six decades, ASEAN has been in the business of building peace. I have spoken about its value earlier: and also its visionary and active centrality, which must prevail in the face of major power rivalries and common challenges. Our seas and oceans connect our nations as a lifeline for the well-being of our economies and the future of millions of our coastal communities. Getting governance right in the maritime commons, and applying the best of science, international law and norms to manage them, are key to maintaining peace in the region.
Maritime collaboration initiatives have also emerged in our region as well as in the Indian Ocean. Joint exercises and sails involving a number of states have become commonplace, each affirming the sense of responsibility of these states for regional peace and security. And we should also not overlook outer space — a global common of fundamental importance to development and security in Asia — especially in terms of preventing an arms race in outer space and promoting equitable peaceful uses of space-based technologies is important.
And it is true: we live in a moment of complexities unseen prior to our time. But the world has always been in flux, change constant, the tides sometimes more turbulent than other times.
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