Subhechcha Ganguly 
The State of Southeast Asia 2024 Survey Report, released by the ASEAN Studies Centre at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore, has been making headlines since its release in early April for a variety of reasons, the most notable of which is that it gives China more support than it does the US. It is astonishing to see that despite their excellent work, the European Union (US) and India have also lost favour.
The survey for this year was carried out from January 3, 2024, to February 23, 2024, a span of seven weeks. It is based on responses from 1,994 participants in total, coming from ten Southeast Asian nations. Like all surveys, the State of Southeast Asia survey is also not without flaws. Still it offers good insights into the region as it offers a broad overview of Southeast Asian perspectives on important political-strategic, economic, soft power, and hard power issues that matter to the ten Southeast Asian countries, and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which serves as their representative body.
It also offers comments from Southeast Asia on significant global issues and geopolitical developments in the area, along with an overview of the interactions that ASEAN and its dialogue partners have had with the region in the last year. The survey, which is divided into six areas, gives a general picture of the most common opinions held by people who have the power to shape or influence policy in relation to local concerns. It contains respondent profiles segmented by nationality, affiliation, age, and education.
