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Article: Bush in Southeast Asia.(Opinion & Editorial)
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- Manila Bulletin
- Article date:
- September 13, 2003
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US President George W. Bush has scheduled a whirlwind visit of Southeast Asia. The Philippines is getting the lions share of his time an estimated eight hours and three hours each for the other countries. (The Philippine Post in Washington has informed the DFA that the visits to the other countries have not been finalized and may not take place at all.)
The American trauma over the Vietnam war is largely healed and the American President will find Southeast Asia, symbolized by ASEAN, essentially a haven of peace, stability and economic progress.
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