What lessons can Southeast Asia learn from ‘Brexit’?
Keith Richburg is the director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong. He spent more than two decades as a foreign correspondent for the Washington Post covering Africa, Europe, China and Southeast Asia, making his first visit to Cambodia in 1986, during a stint when he was based in Manila. As a reporter, Richburg extensively covered both the European Union and ASEAN, including attending the first ASEAN summit after Cambodia’s accession to the bloc in 1999. In a recent interview by phone, VOA Khmer’s Sopheak Hoeun asked the veteran journalist about the lessons Southeast Asian nations could learn from Britain’s momentous decision to leave the E.U. in a referendum on June 23. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
