Singapore has assumed the chairmanship of ASEAN for 2018, and a whole slew of discussions have been planned around it. There are worrying trends including individual countries growing but ASEAN as a bloc is not.
There are concerns that if ASEAN is overpromising and under-delivering, it will cost Foreign Domestic Investment to ASEAN to fall even more.
Chris Humphrey, Executive Director of EU-ASEAN Business Council tells us more.