Southeast Asia: A Fishhook Hypothesis?

SOUTHEAST ASIA A Fishhook Hypothesis? Hardly anyone talks about the dom ino theory any more. Would you be lieve the fishhook hypothesis? On the geographical fishhook formed by North and South Viet Nam, the neighboring countries of Southeast Asia keenly feel each tug and convulsion of the Vietnamese war. Increasingly, many of them consider their future to be linked directly to the war. "The eventual fate of South and Southeast Asia," Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew said last week, "depends more and more on...

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