Autonomy in East Asia has long been achieved by strategically deepening interdependence — the question now is whether China will sustain an order that allows others to do the same

The kind of multilateralism that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke about in Davos remains an aspiration rather than an achievable reality.

Autonomy in East Asia has long been achieved by strategically deepening interdependence — the question now is whether China will sustain an order that allows others to do the same