Southeast Asia consists of eleven countries that reach from eastern India to China, and is generally divided into “mainland” and “island” zones. The mainland (Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and ...
But looking forward, the administration viewed the maintenance of stability and pro-American regimes in Europe as more essential to U.S. interests than in mainland Asia. It was also the region ...
and the normalization of relations between the United States and Vietnam in 1995 brought relative peace to mainland Southeast Asia, paving the way for more states to join ASEAN. With the addition ...