Marston, Hunter2021-03-172021-03-171839-0242http://hdl.handle.net/1885/2272362020 has been an extremely difficult year for Southeast Asia. Multiple countries are expecting an economic contraction as tourism and intra-regional trade grind to a halt in the wake of COVID-19. China has donated enormous quantities of personal protective equipment (PPE) and testing equipment to the region, while the United States has directed roughly US$80 million in pandemic assistance to Southeast Asian countries. But rather than forging a global response to the pandemic, the two superpowers have resorted to blaming one another in an information war.application/pdfen-AU© 2020 East Asia Forumhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/2020-07-222020-11-15Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported Licence