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Laos's 2016 ASEAN chairmanship will be challenging

Content type:: Expert Briefings
Location:: ASEAN
Keywords associated with this article:: Geographic: ASEAN AP Brunei Cambodia China India Indonesia Japan Laos Malaysia Middle East Myanmar Philippines Russia Singapore South Korea South-east Asia Thailand United States Vietnam

Topical: international relations border conflict defence electricity energy environment foreign investment foreign policy foreign trade government growth immigration infrastructure integration labour security summit talks terrorism economy industry politics human rights
ISSN:: 2633-304X
Citation:: Oxford Analytica (2015), "Laos's 2016 ASEAN chairmanship will be challenging", Expert Briefings.
https://doi.org/10.1108/OXAN-DB207353

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Subject

Outlook for Laos's 2016 chairmanship of ASEAN.

Significance

Laos chairs ASEAN in 2016, its second chairmanship. Yet 2016 promises a more demanding and complex chairmanship for Vientiane than 2004.

Impacts

Minor advances in implementing the Declaration on the Code of Conduct over the South China Sea are possible.
Yet the Code itself will not be agreed in 2016.
Laos-US ties will expand in 2016.
Beijing-Washington competition over Laos as a proxy for their regional influence will grow.
Indonesia and Malaysia will probably drive ASEAN's anti-ISG efforts in 2016.

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