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Temasek Junior College 2018 9752/02/S/2018 [Turn over   TEMASEK JUNIOR COLLEGE JC2 Preliminary Examinations HIGHER 2   HISTORY 9752/02 Paper 2 The Making of Independent Southeast Asia (Independence to 2000) 11 September 2018 3 hours         READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your centre number, index number, name and CG on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen on both sides of the paper. Start each answer on a fresh piece of writing paper. You may use an HB pencil for any diagrams, graphs or rough working. Do not use staples, paper clips, glue or correction fluid. Section A Answer Question 1. Section B Answer two questions. At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together with the cover sheet on top. 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.

2    Temasek Junior College 2018 9752/02/S/2018 SECTION A You must answer Question 1. THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ASEAN AS A REGIONAL ORGANISATION 1 Read the sources and then answer the questions which follow. Source A Then came ASEAN’s first big test. Even when ASEAN submitted a resolution to the United Nations calling on the Vietnamese to withdraw from Cambodia, the Vietnamese really thought that ASEAN would make a lot of noise and then we would accept the situation. However, ASEAN worked together and despite early bias in favour of Vietnam and the Russians in the United Nations, we were able to get majority support for our resolution against a Vietnam which for years had been an object of adulation in the Third World. Since 1979, the fact that ASEAN is able to mobilise 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 ASEAN effort. We asked the Americans and our Western friends not to take the lead in this matter but to follow us. Memoirs of Mr. S. Rajaratnam (Singapore’s Foreign Minister 1965 – 1980), published in 1987. Source B Acting US Secretary of State Strobe Talbott welcomed the ASEAN participants and observed that the dialogue provides an opportunity to discuss a broad range of economic and political issues. The US atta ches special importance to the new ASEAN Regional Forum. ASEAN, and the US-ASEAN dialogue, can play a leading role in magnifying the positive features of our growing interdependence and in controlling the negative ones. Far more important than any differences among us are the interests and values that bind us together. ASEAN Secretary-General Dato Ajit Singh emphasised the importance of the now 17- year-old ASEAN-US dialogue process, noting our substantia