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This paper discusses Southeast Asia's security environment and the transnational and geopolitical challenges shaping it. Rapid economic change, actual and potential disease epidemics and the emergence of militant jihadist networks are among the region’s main transnational concerns. The paper states that geopolitically China poses a major strategic challenge. The author also looks at US policy toward the region and criticizes the missing understanding of the complex security environment and the lack of a conscious, comprehensive strategy to deal with it beyond counterterrorism.