The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) should reconsider its consensus-based approach to resolving issues and work on presenting a unified front to address emerging challenges.

This was the sentiment of experts who spoke at a panel discussion during the “Asean at Fifty: Going Forward” forum in Makati City on Thursday. The forum tackled the question of what role the regional bloc could play given rising anti-globalization sentiment and how the promises of the Asean Economic Community (AEC) could be achieved.

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