1、 https:/crsreports.congress.gov Updated March 4, 2022The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)Overview The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is Southeast Asias primary multilateral organization, a 10-member grouping of nations with a combined population of 660 million and a com
2、bined annual gross domestic product (GDP) of around $3.1 trillion in 2021. Established in 1967, it has grown into one of the worlds largest regional fora, representing a strategically important region straddling some of the worlds busiest sea lanes, including the Straits of Malacca and the South Chi
3、na Sea. Taken collectively, ASEAN would rank as the worlds fifth-largest economy and the United States fourth-largest export market. ASEANs members are Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Members rotate as chair: Cambodia i
4、s ASEANs chair for 2022 and Indonesia is to assume the chair in 2023. ASEAN engages in a wide range of diplomatic, economic and security discussions through hundreds of annual meetings and through a secretariat based in Jakarta, Indonesia. In 2008, the United States became the first non-ASEAN nation
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