“It’s a small world spinning faster and faster every day. No matter it’s Democrats or Republicans (controlling US congress), at the end of day, we will realize that we can’t survive without the stability and prosperity of this region. It’s in our self-interest and also the global interest,” said former senator and congressman William Cohen, the current co-chair of the US-ASEAN Strategy Commission, in a public lecture at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta on Monday.