Southeast Asia

Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.

1954

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the mainland states were able to unite and drive the europeans out.

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Aborigines first came to Australia from southeast Asia over 50,000 years ago as they are nomads. Hence, they move from region to region in search of sufficient food and water, and as not to overuse one area of land.

200 million years ago, all of the continents in the world were joined together, making one "super continent". Gradually over many years, the continents began to drift apart from one another, causing a vast amount of islands between the separating continents.

The aborigines, in their nomadic tracks, island hopped, (traveled from island to island) and soon they reached a new continent, AUSTRALIA.

So, one theory of why the aboriginal people migrated to Australia, was in their nomadic tracks, and could have even been "accidental".

Once they arrived in Australia they remained there primarily and spread out into the different regions of the continent. Similarly to modern

In the last Ice Age abt 10k years ago, you could probably walk from Johor to Jakarta and Kuching. Then Earth got warmer, ice-cap melted, sea-level rose, blah blah, and a single landmass got separated into many islands.

They used military force.

Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia

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Indonesia: Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

Thailand: Abhisit Vejjajiva

Malaysia: Dato' Sri Mohd Najib bin Tun Abdul Razak

Philippines

Brunei

Laos

Myanmar

Vietnam

Singapore

Cambodia

Thailand was never colonized, in contrast to the rest of Southeast Asia which was either overrun by the British (Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei), French (Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos), Spanish (the Philippines), or Dutch (Indonesia).

South-East Asian countries at the moment are to busy with their own social and economic matters, A.S.E.A.N. has a long term programme for a military- and close-economic union in the future. ''The country formerly known as Burma'' would never let any union interfere in their domestic instabilities and will defend their present state of sovereignty at ANY cost. Viet-Nam, and Laos are socialist countries. Filipinos are extremely nationalistic. Malaysians and Indonesians have a realistic chance of unification (Nusantara). And Thailand would not accept a union that undermines their monarchy.

South-East Asia is a very complicated region, and each country has its own complicated matters that would potentionally halt any steps in the direction of unification.

But if South-East Asia would unify it would be the 9th largest economy in the world, and have a large military and economic sphere of influence.

Philippines

to obtain colonies that were rich in resources

They lost against the Viet Minh.

They lost due to the fact that they were greatly outnumbered, 15 000 french to 50 000 Viet Minh. (approx. most sources have similar numbers)

Also the tactics the french had used was not suited to the environment. They used maps for they did not know the area which were often found by members of the VM and were used against them to find their where-abouts.

The FEC (french) had under estimated the Viet Minh and thought that they would be unable to get supplies and warfare equipment up through the harsh terrain and surrounding trees and mountains in the jungle land. Though that's exactly what they had done.

But most importantly is the VM tunnels, in 57 days the battle of Dien Bien Phu had ended with the FEC defeat. The FEC had made many forts which were taken down one by one by the VM through their use of digging secret tunnels through to each fort. This had occured march-may 1954.

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Malaya, as it was then.

The Malay Peninsula is divided between Malaysia and Thailand.

Because of Insects, Wild animals, and Heavy rains.

The Austronesian People, from whom Filipinos, Malays, Indonesians, Malagasies (people from Madagascar), Polynesians, and ethnic Taiwanese (as opposed to Chinese Mainlanders who are now the overwhelming majority) all descend, conquered the islands they did quite effectively because they had preliminary agriculture and ship-building techniques. These overwhelmed any native inhabitants of those regions who were hunter-gatherers and not populous enough or skilled enough to fight back.

However, the mainland portion of Southeast Asia (excluding Malaya) had developed farming cultures (Vietnamese, Khmer, Siamese, etc.) who were just as advanced and developed as the Austronesians. Therefore, the Austronesians were either deterred from attempting conquest or just failed each time that they tried.

Therefore, Thailand remained a unique kingdom separate from Malaysia because its people were never overrun by Austronesians (who are the ancestors of the Malaysians). Indonesia as a united archipelago is a modern construction based on the fact that the Dutch united the region in the 1500s. Prior to that, each of the islands as well as Malaya, were held by different Austronesian sub-tribes. The Austronesians could not hope to defeat one another except in long-drawn out wars, which did occasionally happen, but this technological equivalency prevented colonization of Indonesia in general by Malays or Filipinos.

Why US troops at Thailand tdy's in Vietnam 1962?