SRJC_08 JC2 P2 Prelim_QNS

SERANGOON JUNIOR COLLEGE JC2 PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION 2008 HISTORY Higher 2 9731/2 Paper 2 Tuesday 26 August 2008 3 hr Additional materials: Answer paper Cover page INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES • Write your name and civics tutorial group in the spaces provided on the cover page and on every answer. • Write in dark blue or black pen on both sides of the paper. • Do not use staples, paper clips, highl ighters, glue or correction fluid. • Write your answers on the separate answer paper provided. • Candidates are to answer Question 1 in Section A, and answer any 3 questions in Section B. INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES • You are reminded of the need for good English and clear presentation in your answers. This question paper consists of 4 printed pages.

2 Section A You must answer Question 1. ASEAN AND REGIONAL SECURITY 1 Read the sources and then answer the question. Source A Even when ASEAN submitted a resolution calli ng on the Vietnamese to withdraw from Cambodia, the Vietnamese r eally thought that ASEAN would make a lot of noise and then we would accept the situation. They told Tommy Koh that the Security Council could pass any resolution it liked but that after three months the Unit ed Nations would lose interest in Cambodia. To the surprise of the Vietnamese and their fr iends, nothing of that sort happened. ASEAN worked together and despite early bias in favour of Vietnam and the Russians, in the United Nations, we we re able to get majo rity support for our resolution against Vietnam, which for years has been an object of adulation in the Third World. Since 1979, with each meeting, we ha ve been regularly able to increase the votes against the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia. The fact that ASEAN is able to mobilize more support in the United Nations against the combined lobbying of Vietnam and its communist allies, is proof that ASEAN is not ineffectual. It is an ASE AN effort. We asked the Americans and our Western friends not to take the lead in this matter but to follow us. Comments by former Foreign Minister of Singapore, S. Rajaratnam, in 1987 Source B The face of ASEAN’s external solidarity concealed different internal strategic perceptions. Malaysia and Indonesia, alarmed at the great power implications of confrontation with Vietnam, advanced at a March 1980 bilateral su mmit in Kuantan, Malaysia, the Kuantan Principle. Conceptually rooted in the ZOPFAN, it called for an end to Soviet influence in Vietnam but at the same time recognised Viet nam’s security concerns with respect to China. It assumed a Vietnamese political spher e of interest in Cambodia in return for a peaceful Thai-Cambodian border. Donald E. Weatherbee, an American academic, writing in 2005. Source C Selected Voting Record of UN Resolution entitled “ The Situation in Kampuchea