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How successful has the ‘ASEAN Plus Three’ been in addressing regional problems? Support your answer with specific examples.

  • UPSC 2025
  • 15 marks
  • Regionalisation of World Politics

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ASEAN Plus Three (APT) joins the ASEAN states with China, Japan and South Korea. It first met at Kuala Lumpur in December 1997, in the middle of the Asian financial crisis, and gave shape to the East Asian caucus Mahathir Mohamad had proposed in 1990, after Washington blocked Japan's Asian Monetary Fund. The 1999 Manila…

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