This commitment was made at the 7th ASEAN-U.S. Joint Cooperation Committee (JCC) meeting held at the ASEAN secretariat last week. This is the first JCC to be held since the elevation of the Asean-U.S. partnership to a strategic level in November 2015 and the successful convening of the ASEAN-U.S. special leaders’ summit in Sunnylands, California last February. The meeting took stock of the cooperation under the plan of action to implement the ASEAN-U.S. strategic partnership […]