At a historical turning point in the reshaping of the global order and the turmoil in the Middle East, ASEAN should build a more resilient security cooperation mechanism to achieve collective "life preservation" and thereby drive Southeast Asia's rise as a third-party force in the new global landscape. Malaysian Deputy Finance Minister Liew Chin Tong proposed this view on Thursday (April 15) in Kuala Lumpur at the fourth "Southeast Asia Forum" hosted by Lianhe Zaobao, focusing on "ASEAN and the new global order." He pointed out that as geopolitical tensions escalate, the unipolar system led by the United States since the end of the Cold War is accelerating its disintegration, and the international order is experiencing unprecedented changes. He said that the three major pillars supporting U.S. unipolar hegemony since World War II—the dollar system, the U.S. market, and the U.S. military deployment—are facing the most severe challenges in 80 years. As the wealth of the U.S. middle ...