Former President Donald Trump upended the election tradition of "balancing the ticket" when he picked Ohio Sen. JD Vance as his running mate. But the MAGA pair is unlikely to disrupt the calculus for an Asia that's already preparing for the possibility of his victory in November, experts say.
"It would be quite irresponsible if they didn't already countenance this, and I think, to be honest, we will not see the overreactions that we saw earlier or in parts of Europe," said Dylan Loh, assistant professor of public policy and international studies at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU).
"I think Trump's tenure has shown that fears of abandonment or ignorance of politics in Asia are overblown," said Dylan Loh.
"The most prominent US-aligned governments in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines have been hedging their bets and working carefully to make their economies and supply chains more resilient," said Chong Ja Ian, a political science professor at the National University of Singapore.
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