Author: See Seng Tan

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed today, Friday, that Iraq has invested heavily during the past years in enhancing regional stability, ending wars and conflicts, and implementing economic reform to achieve economic integration in the region. The Undersecretary of the Ministry Hisham Al-Alawi told the Iraqi News Agency (INA): “The Aqaba meetings on Syria, which Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein attended, were the result of consultations, communications and meetings that took place in the days preceding them, and the final statement clearly explains the basic points that are of interest to us in Iraq and to other countries in the region…

A potential Kamala Harris presidency is unlikely to change existing US foreign policy towards the Indo-Pacific region. That said, the possibility that a Harris administration may rely on ideas provided by Rebecca Lissner, a key adviser to Harris, for its foreign policy cannot be ruled out. While such a direction may provoke antagonism from China, a Harris foreign policy – relative to the prospect of another Trump presidency and its attendant uncertainties – may not be as bad for ASEAN. Speculations over what American foreign policy under the potential leadership of Kamala Devi Harris might look like have begun in…