This report provides a comprehensive stocktake of the lessons the Indo-Pacific region should draw from COVID-19 at precisely the time there is a risk of forgetting the pandemic’s significance, not just for health, but also for the resilience of societies, economies, and international rules-based trade and security.

In this report, the authors assess the security situation in Myanmar, ASEAN’s collective response and the individual roles of key ASEAN member states in the mediating process. The report concludes with some policy implications for the wider region, particularly Australia.