Southeast Asia should insulate itself from geopolitical calculations
China Daily Editorial By urging Southeast Asian nations to avoid being used as “chess pieces” by the West, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi was not warning the countries, as some Western media have claimed, but advising them to objectively evaluate the situation in the region.“At the moment many countries in the region, including in the ASEAN region, are under pressure to take sides,” Wang said in his speech at the Association of Southeast Asian