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1967 Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines formed the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as a non-provocative display of solidarity against communist expansion in Vietnam and insurgency within their own borders. Following the Bali summit of 1976, the organization embarked on a programme of economic cooperation, which foundered in the mid-1980s only to be revived around a 1991 Thai proposal for a regional free trade area.
— Charles Jones
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