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CAFTA Angst, Indonesian Strength, and the Mekong Drip
March 24, 2010 5 min. read

CAFTA: This site recently discussed the growing angst of citizens in several Southeast Asian nations in regard to CAFTA.  Asia Times is currently running an article addressing some specific areas of contention in detail. Touted as the world’s biggest free-trade area, CAFTA will bring together 1.7 million consumers with a combined gross domestic product of […]

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ASEAN Integration May Depends on Officially Defined Segregation
July 25, 2009 3 min. read

I wrote before that – Future political integration is dependent on ASEAN resolving its many territorial disputes. There is still a high level of nationalism in the region; member-countries are suspicious of each other due to centuries of conflict, followed by colonial isolation. These disputes were recently surveyed on Capital Hill, by Richard P. Cronin, […]

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