PRESSURE to unite is stronger than the desire to stand alone. Europe is an example of how the integration of economies, finances, law and even politics of nations on that continent came into being.

In ASEAN the pressure to unite is strengthened by the threat from the new economic superpowers China and India. The former is supported by awesome power, with human resources totaling 1.3 billion people. The latter has 1.2 billion people. It was fear