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Article: INDIA'S RELATIONS WITH SOUTHEAST ASIA TAKE A WING
- Article from:
- Southeast Asian Affairs
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
CopyrightCopyright Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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face=+Italic; Satu P. Limayeface=-Italic;
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Speaking at the inaugural India-ASEAN Summit held in November 2002 during the Eighth ASEAN Summit in Cambodia, Singapore's Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong portrayed India as one wing of ASEAN's jumbo jet, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Japan as the other wing.face=+Superscript; 1face=-Superscript; Leaving aside whether such a plane could take off, much less land, safely, the comment describes, certainly inadvertently, India's idiosyncratic ties with Southeast Asia both bilaterally and relative to the region's other formal partners. These attributes include: fresh and ancient links; importance and ...