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The Diplomat · United States · ASEAN and Putin sign the Kazan Declaration — Marcos co-chairs, Anwar courts Moscow
Analyses the summit as Moscow's bid to break isolation via Southeast Asia, and ASEAN's instinct to keep all major powers engaged — questioning how much substance sits beneath the 'multipolar' rhetoric given sanctions and the Ukraine war.
“The summit let Moscow project that it is not isolated, while ASEAN kept to its habit of engaging every major power.”