ASEAN, US support establishment of comprehensive strategic partnership

U.S. President Joe Biden arrives on the South Lawn of the White House to take part in the family photo for the U.S.-ASEAN Special Summit on May 12, 2022 in Washington, DC. Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images via AFP

Leaders of ASEAN and the U.S. have agreed to establish a comprehensive strategic partnership and expect that it will develop in a substantive, effective and mutually beneficial manner.

The two sides officially established relations in 1977 and upgraded that to a Strategic Partnership on November 21, 2015. The U.S. established a Mission to ASEAN in Jakarta, Indonesia in June 2010 and appointed a full-time Ambassador to ASEAN in April 2011.

The U.S. is a major trading partner of ASEAN with an estimated total trade of $362 billion last year, nearly double that of 2009. It has also been the bloc’s largest investor for many years.

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