September 2024 Issues & Insights Vol. 24, SR3 - Nuclear weapons and

would allow the United States to control regional Current multilateral dialogues under the auspices of the narratives and avoid the perception that the United States ASEAN Regional Forum are limited to discussing non- is trying to use the discussion to contain China’s rise. [...] concerns raised by the NWS, including the United States, Recommendation: The United States should coordinate as demonstrated by the revised Protocol to SEANWFZ, with its allies and partners to plan and ensure they take including revisions to provisions related to navigational leadership roles in conducting NEO in the event of a rights and freedoms. [...] A major goal of the survey was to reveal how the noted that all ASEAN states continue to advocate for the region’s broad strategic environment and individual states’ complete elimination of nuclear weapons as the sole means own security considerations would change if and when to ensure prevention against their utilization and the threat China approached nuclear parity with the United States. [...] Research paper authors and selected experts were invited to the workshop, which also featured a scenario-based Southeast Asians generally do not distinguish exercise to explore the potential WMD dimension of a crisis between and among the NWS in their call for nuclear scenario in the region and the potential responses of key disarmament. [...] the scope of the treaty and the protocol obligations,” the Suorsa’s study divides the PLA’s A2/AD “precise nature of the legally binding negative security capabilities into three categories: 1) sensing and targeting, assurances,” the “ambiguity of language concerning the 2) strike, and 3) support.