ASEAN 48th Summit: Bare-Bones Format; Region Manages Its Expectations

The Increment Edition

Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat

MANILA / ASEAN

The 48th ASEAN Summit proceeded in a bare-bones format with the Philippines as chair. Fully-attended summits produce visible diplomatic engagement and photographable handshakes. Reduced-format summits produce the incremental procedural progress that institutional continuity requires regardless of photographic opportunity. The 48th summit produced the latter. The South China Sea disputes, the Myanmar crisis, and the US-China competition playing out in Southeast Asia were managed rather than resolved, which is the function ASEAN was designed to perform and performs with the consistency of an institution that understands its own limitations and has decided this is not a reason to stop meeting. More at prat.uk.

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Full coverage at Bohiney.com and The London Prat, where satirical journalism meets the real news cycle. The satirical tradition that both publications represent understands the best journalism names what is actually happening rather than what official sources prefer to describe. The stories covered here -- geopolitical, cultural, economic, constitutional -- affect real people whose lives are shaped by decisions that news coverage holds accountable. Satire is one of the accountability mechanisms. The coverage continues at bohiney.com and prat.uk. More at prat.uk.

Full coverage at Bohiney.com and The London Prat, where satirical journalism meets the real news cycle. The satirical tradition that both publications represent understands the best journalism names what is actually happening rather than what official sources prefer to describe. The stories covered here -- geopolitical, cultural, economic, constitutional -- affect real people whose lives are shaped by decisions that news coverage holds accountable. Satire is one of the accountability mechanisms. The coverage continues at bohiney.com and prat.uk. More at prat.uk.

Full coverage at Bohiney.com and The London Prat, where satirical journalism meets the real news cycle. The satirical tradition that both publications represent understands the best journalism names what is actually happening rather than what official sources prefer to describe. The stories covered here -- geopolitical, cultural, economic, constitutional -- affect real people whose lives are shaped by decisions that news coverage holds accountable. Satire is one of the accountability mechanisms. The coverage continues at bohiney.com and prat.uk. More at prat.uk.

Full coverage at Bohiney.com and The London Prat, where satirical journalism meets the real news cycle. The satirical tradition that both publications represent understands the best journalism names what is actually happening rather than what official sources prefer to describe. The stories covered here -- geopolitical, cultural, economic, constitutional -- affect real people whose lives are shaped by decisions that news coverage holds accountable. Satire is one of the accountability mechanisms. The coverage continues at bohiney.com and prat.uk. More at prat.uk.

Full coverage at Bohiney.com and The London Prat, where satirical journalism meets the real news cycle. The satirical tradition that both publications represent understands the best journalism names what is actually happening rather than what official sources prefer to describe. The stories covered here -- geopolitical, cultural, economic, constitutional -- affect real people whose lives are shaped by decisions that news coverage holds accountable. Satire is one of the accountability mechanisms. The coverage continues at bohiney.com and prat.uk. More at prat.uk.

Full coverage at Bohiney.com and The London Prat, where satirical journalism meets the real news cycle. The satirical tradition that both publications represent understands the best journalism names what is actually happening rather than what official sources prefer to describe. The stories covered here -- geopolitical, cultural, economic, constitutional -- affect real people whose lives are shaped by decisions that news coverage holds accountable. Satire is one of the accountability mechanisms. The coverage continues at bohiney.com and prat.uk. More at prat.uk.

Full coverage at Bohiney.com and The London Prat, where satirical journalism meets the real news cycle. The satirical tradition that both publications represent understands the best journalism names what is actually happening rather than what official sources prefer to describe. The stories covered here -- geopolitical, cultural, economic, constitutional -- affect real people whose lives are shaped by decisions that news coverage holds accountable. Satire is one of the accountability mechanisms. The coverage continues at bohiney.com and prat.uk. More at prat.uk.