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[Solved] Can ASEAN countries unite?

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ASEAN needs an Alpha male to set the rules for everyone to rally to. 

Now, If Indonesia & Vietnam became the Alpha male then we are going to get fuck! 

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@dyno

If ASEAN becomes a democracy, Muslims will outnumber everyone. 

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Not anymore. In a few decades because Christians are taking over Indonesia. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_Indonesia#:~:text=Christianity%20is%20Indonesi a's%20second%2Dlargest%20religion%2C%20after%20Islam.&text=Indonesia's%2028.6%20million%20Christians%20constitute,Christian%20(Protestant%20or%20Catholic).

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Not going to happen because I predict Indonesians will resist and declare holy war. 

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@zexsy 

who do you think Indonesians will side with? us or their fellow muslims?

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@zexsy 

Indonesia is a pluralists country

https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/jsgs/vol1/iss1/5/

the 1945 Constitution. Indonesia's national motto, "Bhinneka Tunggal Ika" (Unity in Diversity),

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Cambodians & Vietnamese hate each other,

Laos hates Thailand.  

Malays & Indonesian despite both are Muslim have a love and hate relationship.

 

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Europeans have put their differences aside, If they can pull it off so can ASEAN. 

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@zexsy Europeans and ASEAN political mind set do not match.

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Germany and France set the model for the rest of E.U to follow and the E.U had a common enemy to unite under, which was the Soviet Union at that time. 

For ASEAN, the only countries that are anti-China are Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia while the rest of the ASEAN countries are more of a neutral state. 

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@zexsy 

In my opinion, it's only us who are open-minded with different cultures. most of the intercontinental southeast Asians like the Vietnamese & Cambodians are very nationalistic to care about unity. 

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Cambodians and Vietnamese have a territorial dispute so it will be a difficult problem to solve through dialogue. 

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Asean Unity is realistic but under Federation rules 

A federation (also known as a federal state) is a political entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing provinces, states, or other regions under a central federal government (federalism).

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Federation would be useless as the United Nations 😀 

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Asean members have a common goal to unite to enhance the

economy

cultural exchanges 

transportation 

market share

military & political power

technology. 

 

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how is U.N useless? 

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UN Laws are not enforced and nothing gets done. it's the same for ASEAN, nothing get's really done. 

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South east asia is united under ASEAN, DUH

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