US-Asean Connect

US-ASEAN Connect is a new U.S. government initiative, announced by President Obama at the US-ASEAN Sunnylands Summit in California to strengthen the decades-long economic partnership between the United States, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the ASEAN Member States (AMS). The engagement under U.S.-ASEAN Connect will build on existing efforts to support ASEAN’s economic integration. Organized around four pillars (Business, Energy, Innovation, & Policy), the initiative will provide strategic focus to ongoing and future U.S. government activities in the region.