Standing up for ASEAN in the South China Sea
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently stated that the United States considers Chinese maritime claims in the South China Sea illegal. This is a fundamentally new stance. While scholars and pundits are trying to make sense of what the statement means for the dispute, more interesting is how ASEAN will respond as it is inevitably caught in the eye of the South China Sea storm.
https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/07/23/standing-up-for-asean-in-the-south-china-sea/