ASEAN Summit, AMLO’s Final Year, COVID-19 Variants Emerge, and More

The World Next Week

Council on Foreign Relations

Politics, News, News:politics

4.6 • 845 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Southeast Asian leaders meet in Jakarta, Indonesia for the forty-third Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit, working to improve the bloc’s cooperation with external partners; Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, commonly known as AMLO, begins the last year of his six-year term; new COVID-19 variants drive a spike in U.S. cases and hospitalizations; and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo’s visit to Beijing spurs renewed interest in U.S.-China trade. For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/asean-summit-amlos-final-year-covid-19-variants-emerge-and-more

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0:00.0	In the coming week, Southeast Asian leaders meet in Jakarta for the ASEAN summit.
0:07.0	Mexico's president enters the last year of his term, and new COVID variants were Republic health officials.
0:12.0	It's August 31, 2023 in time for the world next week. I'm Bob McMahon.
0:26.7	And I'm Shannon O'Neill.
0:27.9	Shannon is CFR's vice president, deputy director of studies, and the Nelson and David
0:31.8	Rockefeller's senior fellow for Latin America Studies at CFR.
0:35.6	Shannon is also a longtime friend of the pod.
0:38.2	Shannon, thanks for being here.
0:39.2	Always a pleasure to join you.
0:40.8	So, Bob, let's start off with you and let's start off with Southeast Asia.
0:44.9	Next Tuesday, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, often referred to as ASEAN.
0:50.2	They're going to meet in Jakarta, Indonesia.
0:52.5	There's been many, many ASEAN summits along the way. The focus of this one is going to meet in Jakarta, Indonesia. There's been many, many Asian summits along the way.
0:55.0	The focus of this one is going to be their external partners, other nations that are
0:59.5	associated with the organization as well as international organizations.
1:03.6	So tell us a little bit about what we should be watching as these various leaders meet and
1:08.5	what you see maybe coming out of the summit.
1:13.0	So the timing of it is something to bring up first and foremost because this summit typically is part of a stitched together group
1:18.6	of major Asian summits that happen later in the year, typically November. The reporting has it
1:23.3	that the host this year, Indonesia, moved it up deliberately to September because it would be
1:28.5	in proximity to the G20 summit in India, hoping that leaders like U.S. President Joe Biden
1:34.1	would be able to make it.
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