Association of Southeast Asian Nations - Obama Presidency Oral History Association of Southeast Asian Nations Index / Organizations Transcripts Daniel Russel ...should join the East Asia Summit, the ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asia... ...join the East Asia Summit, the ASEAN [ Association of Southeast Asian Nations ] -led summit that meant signing a... ...-led summit that meant signing an ASEAN treaty, the Treaty of Amity an... ...in multilateral institutions like, with ASEAN , the East Asia Summit, and s... ...that year, 2011, to participate in the ASEAN summits, the US-ASEAN meetings; bu... ...in the ASEAN summits, the US- ASEAN meetings; but also the broader Eas... ...event, we had named an ambassador to ASEAN . Obama had already traveled, I think... ...organized by, I don't know, the US- ASEAN Business Council or whatever, and h... Show more... Derek Mitchell ...it. It obstructed our relationship with ASEAN , the Association of Southeast Asia... ...our relationship with ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations , which we wanted to empower in orde... ...arrived—I think was July of 2012—at the ASEAN meetings in Cambodia, we had a lon... ...and he had Thailand right before, an ASEAN meeting. So how do we convince them... Jim Steinberg ...Secretary Rice rarely attended the ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asia... ...Rice rarely attended the ASEAN [ Association of Southeast Asian Nations ] Regional Forums and the like, whic... ...Treaty of Amity and Cooperation with ASEAN , which was a precondition t... ...it. There's the old adage about ASEAN and East Asia, that seventy-fiv... ...former. We spoke a little bit about ASEAN , but I just wanted to ask about wh... ...and that by emphasizing the role of ASEAN , who nobody would argue wanted to b... ...in terms of reassuring the countries of ASEAN that we cared, that we had a stake... ...engagement in Southeast Asia and with ASEAN —because there were legitimat... ...to send a signal that we valued the ASEAN countries as economic partners, a... Show more... Elizabeth Phu ...I definitely want to ask you about ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asia... ...want to ask you about ASEAN [ Association of Southeast Asian Nations ], but to this framework of moving awa... ...appointed a permanent representative to ASEAN . Why was that engagement important an... ...region. If you talk to any of the ten ASEAN countries, eventually they're going t... ...it's important for you to show up at ASEAN meetings. Being a good partner mean... ...a good listener. Our participation in ASEAN forums, whether it was the ASEA... ...in ASEAN forums, whether it was the ASEAN regional forum or the leaders... ...show up. Whether it's in regard to ASEAN or the trilateralism you wer... ...and in 2016 Laos would be the chair of ASEAN . I had started thinking about th... ...the leaders' meetings and showing up at ASEAN meetings, and so the assumption was th... ...how hard TPP would be. I remember the ASEAN Business Council put out—obviously ... ... So two days before leaving for the ASEAN Summit, I think that year it was i... Show more... Richard Verma ...[Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation] or ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asia... ...Economic Cooperation] or ASEAN [ Association of Southeast Asian Nations ] or G20, you name it. They wer... Evan Medeiros ...[read: of] Southeast Asian Nations [ ASEAN ]. So this is really the brilliance o... ...Malaysia and contribute more to various ASEAN initiatives, even global initiatives... ...institutions like the East Asia Summit, ASEAN , which you mentioned. You als... ...of Southeast Asian Countries, ASEAN , lift it up, try and generat... ...hosted almost every leader from the ten ASEAN countries to meet at Sunnylands. So i... ...that we had been able to do more with ASEAN and Southeast Asian countries, I thin... Show more... Jake Sullivan ...region, China. And it had to involve ASEAN , the Association of Southeast Asia... ...China. And it had to involve ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations , the countries of Southeast Asia tha... ...sake but also because it's where the ASEAN headquarters were, was the fourth sto... ...the Indonesia stop. I mentioned ASEAN , perhaps the key political an... ...attention to the US relationship with ASEAN , the Association of Southeast Asia... ...to the US relationship with ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations . That began in 2009 with the U... ...Treaty of Amity and Cooperation, with ASEAN ; sending an ambassador to ASEAN; an... ...with ASEAN; sending an ambassador to ASEAN ; and then having a multifaceted set o... ...with the individual ten members of ASEAN plus working with the organization as ... ...countries of the region, both in ASEAN and fellow allies, to push back agains... ...a strong relationship with ASEAN and with India, which was becomin... Show more... Thant Myint-U ...you look at other countries in ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asia... ...you look at other countries in ASEAN [ Association of Southeast Asian Nations ], in Southeast Asia—they've made lot... 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