Date/Time
Date(s) - Saturday - Sep 27, 2025
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Categories
- Date and Time: 27th of September, Saturday 15:00 – 17:00, UTC+8
- Organizer: ACSC-ASEAN Peoples Forum, co-organized with Malaysia & Indonesia
- Registration: https://bit.ly/peoplepowerSEasia_registratio
From Gaza to Ukraine; Sudan to the Democratic Republic of Congo; Myanmar to the Thai-Cambodia border, the world is grappled by rising conflicts, militarism, and genocides for profit and power. Meanwhile, U.S. imperialism has increasingly exercised its military, economic, and diplomatic dominance over the Global South. The Trump administration’s policies has ushered in a new age of neocolonialism, with its support for the Israeli genocide of Palestine, bombing of Yemen, threats to occupy Gaza and the Panama Canal, and plans to invade the Caribbean and Latin America with US troops. Southeast Asia is not spared from these seismic geopolitical shifts. As a major geopolitical region, Southeast Asia is increasingly weaponised in the U.S. imperialist drive for war, with the construction of new U.S. military bases in Philippines, increased military exercises between U.S. and ASEAN countries, and direct military occupation of the Pacific Islands including Hawai’i, Marshall Islands, and Guam. In its scramble to cement power, the Trump administration has been engaging in increasingly aggressive economic terrorism against Southeast Asian countries through tariff wars, forcing countries such as Indonesia and Philippines to accept unequal treaties with the U.S.; impacting the lives of millions in working-class people, peasants, and other marginalised people in the region. The forum aims to address the challenges faced by Southeast Asia in a world increasingly dominated by militarist wars and U.S. imperialism, especially in the context of Trump’s renewed attacks on the region.. How can we build an alternative regionalism based in peace, justice, and genuine sovereignty, free from militarisation and interference by imperialist powers?