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Japan’s AZEC and POWERR Asia Are Failing Southeast Asia

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Source: The Diplomat

Tokyo has every right to defend its own trade networks. But it has no right to dress up its domestic fossil fuel strategy as a regional partnership for decarbonization and energy security.

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