From a one full day conference on “The Post-COVID 19 World Order: The Dynamics of Potential Sino-American Cooperation” on 27 July 2022, organized by the Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace (CICP) and the South Asia & Southeast Asia International Logistics Research Institute (SSILR), eminent experts agreed that the global and regional peace, security and stability depend largely on the pragmatic cooperation between China and the United States rather than the unnecessary debate on ideological difference or the discourse about the never-ending confrontational actions between the two most powerful countries in the world.
Distinguished speakers from China, the US, India, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam agreed that China and the United States should not exclude each other and instead should cooperate in areas such as infrastructure, and health care in the context of pandemic preparedness, climate change, energy, Mekong issues, education, and even in security related matters such as finding lasting peace in the Korean Peninsula and search and rescue at sea as well as other related maritime security cooperation for the common good of all countries in Southeast Asia. All countries consider themselves as friends to both the US and China and they want to see more friendly relations between the two powers.
