Kuala Lumpur, June 11 -- The ASEAN Future Forum (AFF) 2026 has the potential to become an 'incubator of ideas' for ASEAN's future agenda, contributing to the identification of emerging challenges, the formulation of policy recommendations, and the implementation of the ASEAN Community Vision 2045, according to Collins Chong Yew Keat, a strategic, security and foreign affairs analyst at the Universiti Malaya. Speaking to Vietnam News Agency correspondents in Malaysia, the expert said Vietnam's decision to organise the forum was highly timely, as the bloc is currently facing a range of interconnected challenges, from major-power competition, maritime tensions and supply chain disruptions to non-traditional issues such as climate change and ...