Introduction : ASEAN's goals -- Pivoting to Asia -- Defining ASEAN's goals -- Financial capital -- A systems approach to achieving ASEAN's goals -- People, data, and information -- Institutions, governance, and rule of law -- Positioning ASEAN's economy for success -- Climate change and the...

The author, Singapore's Ambassador to the Holy See, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and the EC, looks at the positions of the USA, the USSR and China after the victories of the communist forces in South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos in 1975. Vietnamese intervention in Cambodia in December 1978...