Elina Noor, Assistant Director, Foreign Policy and Security Studies at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia, explains that “The reality is that below the stratosphere of grand strategy, the microcosms of Asia and America are increasingly being interwoven through the interactions of sports, culture, language, and music.”

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