Low-Hanging Fruit Centrality: Understanding the 31st ASEAN Regional Forum
► Recent ASEAN Regional Forum meeting in Laos demonstrated the limit on how ARF can perform in realizing ASEAN Centrality and bring about solutions to major regional security issues.
► ASEAN Regional Forum focus on technical cooperation and its lack of progress on realizing agenda beyond dialogue may test its ability to bring workable solutions to potentials of major conflict in the region.
► ASEAN relies on low-hanging fruit security cooperation. So does ARF. It thus limits ASEAN ability to realize centrality in dealing with major security issues.