“Justin Trudeau has a serious weakness,” according to the Canadian pundit R. Michael Warren, writing in The Star in 2014. * * *What the acknowledged social media maven Trudeau did not understand was “the Asean Way,” the group’s controversial but highly effective approach to solving issues that respects the cultural norms of Southeast Asia. Wrote Logan Masilamani and Jimmy Peterson in the Foreign Policy Journal in 2015:“The Asean Way above all prioritizes a consensus-based, non-conflictual way of addressing problems. The Asean Way is not without its critics, who say that the approach can be only applied to Asian countries with specific cultural norms. But, of course, that was also before the matter of the dumping of Canadian garbage in Manila was brought up.

Source: The Standard November 15, 2017 19:18 UTC