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I agree that US role there is more as maintaining their presence. In some way, you can say that they have been maintaining a buffer zone going from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan then the SEA. Even the ASEAN was firstly formed to combat Communism, with the belt of Thailand, Philipines, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia, but later expanded and take in the rest of the country in the regions
It probably the best for the ASEAN to stick with each other through, due to their diversity and all can benefit from each other stability. But once each countries started to pick their side. They will just became pawn to do the US and China bidding
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