Thailand’s ASEAN Chair Challenge in 2019
On November 15 at the recent ASEAN Summit in Singapore, the symbolic gavel of the rotating ASEAN chairmanship was handed from Singapore to Thailand ahead of the official start as ASEAN chair in 2019. While Bangkok is no stranger to chairing ASEAN as one of the grouping’s founding members and key supporters, it is also inheriting the position at a time when it has to confront a mix of domestic, foreign, and wider regional and global challenges.
