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© 2025 Catholic Junior College JC2 Preliminary Examinations HISTORY 9174/02 Paper 2 Developments in Southeast Asia (Independence - 2000) 16 September 2025 3 hours No Additional Materials are required. READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST An answer booklet will be provided with this question paper. You should follow the instructions on t he front cover of the answer booklet. If you need additional answer paper, ask the invigilator for a continuation booklet. Section A Answer Question 1. Section B Answer two questions. The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question. This document consists of 5 printed pages and 1 blank page. CATHOLIC JUNIOR COLLEGE JC2 Preliminary Examinations Higher 2

2 2025 Catholic Junior College JC2 Preliminary Examinations Section A You must answer Question 1. ASEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION 1 Read the sources and answer the questions that follow. Source A Economic cooperation among members produced some results, though not particularly impressive. Negotiations were conducted on trade, tariffs, quotas and also economic and technical cooperation with the European Community, the United States, Japan, Australia , and other countries, obtaining here and there some limited satisfaction but nothing earth shaking. However, within the organisation, intra -regional trade and industrial joint projects made little headway, because of exacerbated nationalism shown by technocrats laying the groundwork for their political superiors. Moreover, certain members on several occasions have displayed a bazaar rather than co-operative spirit by insisting on taking more than giving, as evidenced in the case of industrial joint ventures and a few others. Also, there is no common market in the making. From an article by former Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman, September 1988. . Source B Still intra -ASEAN trade did not grow much. Because the coverage of the PTA was negotiated product by product, the tendency of members, true to the protectionist spirit and import-substitution policies of that time, was to include mostly items that were not likely to be extensively traded. The national exclusion lists were long. In any case, with a margin of preference of 50%, a PTA tariff would remain high if the most favoured nation tariff was set at a lofty level. Tariff rates were not brought down, those ASEAN products that were covered were only given 25-50% discount on high tariffs. At their 1991 meeting, the economic ministers observed that, while intra -ASEAN trade in items covered by the PTA had grown from $121million in 1987 to $576 million in 1989, it accounted for an insignificant part of intra-ASEAN trade. From a book by a former ASEAN Secretary-General, 2006.