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1 © VJC 2018 9752/02 | JC2 Preliminary Examination VICTORIA JUNIOR COLLEGE JC2 PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION 2018 HIGHER 2 H2 History 9752/02 Paper 2 18 September 2018 The Making of Independent Southeast Asia (Independence-2000) 3 hours Additional Materials: Answer Paper READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your class, index number and name on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen on both sides of the paper. You may use a soft pencil for any diagrams, graphs or rough working. Do not use staples, paper clips, glue or correction fluid/tape. Section A Answer Question 1. Section B Answer two questions. At the end of the examination, fasten and submit your work for Section A and Section B separately. Ensure that your work is fastened securely. The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question. This document consists of 5 printed pages. [Turn over

2 © VJC 2018 9752/02 | JC2 Preliminary Examination Section A You must answer Question 1. ASEAN AND REGIONAL ECONOMIC COOPERATION 1 Read the sources and answer the questions that follow. Source A While ASEAN’s declared objectives were economic, social and cultural, all knew that progress in economic cooperation would be slow. The fall of Saigon to the communists in April 1975 increased our sense of the danger from subversion and insurgency. ASEAN had to undertake economic development more effectively to reduce domestic discontent. At a bilateral meeting with Suharto in Bali in September 1975, I tried to persuade him to agree to set economic targets for ASEAN at its first summit, and to go for a trade liberalisation policy, starting with a 10 per cent reduction by member countries of tariffs on selected items and leading eventually to a free trade area. Suharto’s close aide later told our ambassador that after [he] met me, his technocrats had advised him against free trade. An excerpt from the memoirs of former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, published in 2000. Source B 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, certai n 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. An extract from an article by former Thai Fore