Opinion
Swimming Between Whales: The Hidden Strategic Costs of Geopolitical Conflict for Small Powers
While OPEC+ and the US may be the two whales of global oil markets, ASEAN is not a third whale. Its countries are a school of smaller fish swimming between them. They do not get to decide how the whales move. What they can decide is how to navigate: not locking onto one whale’s wake, but staying agile enough to shift when the current changes, Tu Anh Tuan writes.