Re: SG, MY, SEA: No borders for ASEAN?

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1 total messages Started by Ian Chai Thu, 19 Sep 1996 00:00

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Author: Ian Chai
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 00:00

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>Perhaps it could start with open borders between Malaysia and Singapore and
>expand from there. This seems easiest to implement and least likely to

Yes, that would be an idea.

>create major disruptions. But before you can get to a situation in which
>people can travel from one end of ASEAN to the other the way they can
>travel from one end of the US or the European Union to the other, I think
>the various ASEAN governments need to become much more like one another.
>You can't have a relatively democratic Philippines and a Burmese dictatorship
>sharing open borders. (BTW, I know that Burma is not yet part of ASEAN, but
>it will be long before ASEAN gets open borders.)

Good point. Malaysia and Singapore are quite different in that respect
as well, but much less so, and the cultural afinity helps.
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Ian Chai <chai@uiuc.edu>                 http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/chai

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