Over the past few weeks, both the United States and China have been engaged in a high-velocity diplomatic campaign to effectively box each other out of Southeast Asia.

During the Cold War, deterrence was a strategy used to dissuade other nations from using nuclear weapons. Now, in order to avoid a cyber arms race, Yang Jian encourages the United States to end its strategy of cyberspace deterrence and institute a paradigm shift embracing global collective security.

Managing the situation in the South China Sea has proven to be difficult. In this context the role that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) can p