This article was first published as ISEAS Commentary 2020/31 Assessing the Economic Impacts of COVID-19 on ASEAN and republished by Khmer Times on 19 March 2020.
This article was translated for publication by Lianhe Zaobao on 19 March from this ThinkChina article, US aircraft carrier visit and Vietnam’s delicate balancing act, which was adapted from a longer piece, Trends in Southeast Asia 2020 Issue 1 The Vietnam-US Security Partnership and the Rules-Based International Order in the Age of Trump.
Assessing the Economic Impacts of COVID-19 on ASEAN
The effects of COVID-19 are hitting ASEAN economies at a time when other risk factors such as a global growth slowdown were already rising. Any assessment of impacts must recognise that the spread of the virus is evolving in unpredictable ways