resilience and common cooperation
The inclusion of the need to maintain centrality and also the mention of addressing and facing renewed maritime threats also is meant to showcase the readiness of ASEAN to strengthen its own internal resilience and common cooperation in defending both the ASEAN values of centrality, but also on warding off foreign threats to the essence of peace and stability and in defending the international law and the rights of sovereignty of each ASEAN power. It also signifies the readiness to stand up to defending the maritime law and norms, and is also meant as a message to Trump that the region is capable to pool together its defence resources to align with the interests of the US. By using this, this can soften the potential impact and repercussions on the part of external powers especially China, by using ASEAN สล็อต เว็บตรง