ASEAN has been around for so long media outlets rarely spell the full name – Association of Southeast Asian Nations. That sounds significant and grand. It’s not.
The parade of talk going nowhere By Duncan Graham
A better title for the acronym would be Association of Supercilious Egoists and Nationalists. Even that snide put down wouldn’t do enough injustice to a ten-member group that likes to think it’s a local version of the European Economic Community.
ASEAN is not Asia’s Common Market, but this week Australians will be bamboozled into thinking otherwise.