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© ACJC 2018 9752/02/JC2 Preliminary Examinations/18 1 e ANGLO-CHINESE JUNIOR COLLEGE PRELIMINARY EXAMINATIONS HISTORY 9752/02 Paper 2 Making of Independent Southeast Asia (Independence–2000) 27 August 2018 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. Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid. Section A Answer Question 1. Section B Answer two questions. Begin each question on a fresh sheet of paper. At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together. The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question This document consists of 5 printed pages. © ACJC History Department 2018 [Turn over

© ACJC 2018 9752/02/JC2 Preliminary Examinations/18 2 Section A You must answer Question 1. RELATIONS BETWEEN SOUTHEAST ASIAN STATES 1 Read the sources and then answer the questions, which follow. Source A ASEAN’s irrelevance or even death has been predicted several times before. At its birth in 1967, few people thought it would live to see another decade: The Malaysia-Philippines dispute over Sabah in 1969, the aftermath of the US withdrawal from Indochina in 1975 and the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in 1979. But ASEAN not only survived, it actually grew a bit stronger each time. But surviving is not necessarily thriving. Another question about ASEAN’s future is what the state of intra-ASEAN relations will be. The ongoing skirmishes on the Thai-Cambodian border do not inspire confidence. Simmering rivalries and mistrust continue to cloud relationships between Singapore and Malaysia, Thailand and Burma, and Malaysia and Thailand. But this is a far cry from the 1960s and 1970s, and there is every reason to hope that these intra- ASEAN conflicts will not doom the organisation. They would need, however, to be managed carefully, especially with the help of existing and new mechanisms that ASEAN is currently seeking to develop. Adapted from an article by an expert on international relations from an American university, 2011. Source B A political cartoon by a Singaporean cartoonist featured on a US-based website, 2014.

© ACJC 2018 9752/02/JC2 Preliminary Examinations/18 3 Source C Recognizing that the maintenance of regional peace and stability served the interests of all parties, they undertook to resolve their differences or disputes through peaceful means, without resorting to the threat o