Malaysia detains 60 Chinese nationals and 6 vessels for trespassing

The various ASEAN countries, while constantly at each other's necks and historically being a big Among Us clusterfuck, are actually pretty chill with each other. The governments bicker on the top level, mostly as a political thing (e.g. nobody wants to let go of their ocean claims if for nothing but their own electability or popularity) — but there's still a lot of cooperation and the economies are really intertwined. ASEAN as a whole also tries to push for unity as a central theme.

Japan has also been pushing hard to be buddy-buddy and compete in sectors that China usually dominates with pure economic might — for example, they're exporting high-speed rail tech aggressively to push against China's silk-road efforts, which lost the battle in Indonesia (China won the HSR contract simply out of being a ridiculously good deal), but won in Thailand. They're also pushing hard for a culture victory, as is SK, who is also trying to emerge as another tech competitor. There's basically a whole metagame right now about ASEAN countries trying to be the new manufacturing centers and Japan/South Korea/Taiwan being the new tech centers.

India-ASEAN relations have been pretty good, and they're major trading partners.

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