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Leaders from Southeast Asia gather in Kazan this month for the Russia-ASEAN summit, and one of the most closely watched developments may not be found on the official agenda. Instead, it lies in a diplomatic request from Manila: a proposed first-ever meeting between Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

At the 23rd Shangri-La Dialogue 2026 held in Singapore and attended by 44 countries, the real story was not the reaffirmation of the US-led Indo-Pacific order but its slow, public unraveling.