The research has thus far extrapolated on Southeast Asia’s global economic importance and the most relevant points in its recent history, which therefore set the appropriate situational backdrop for grasping ASEAN’s geostrategic significance. The region plays a critical role in facilitating China’s international trade network, and it’s for this reason why the US has sought to destabilize it and bring the waterways under its control. In response, China has endeavored to break through the containment bloc being constructed against it and streamline two mainland corridors as partial geopolitical compensation.
(Also see: Part I, The Law Of Hybrid Warfare Part II, Testing the Theory – Syria & Ukraine Part III, Predicting Next Hybrid Wars Part IV, In the Greater Heartland and Part V Breaking the Balkans )
by Andrew Korybko, Global Research:
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