1. Alice D. Ba is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware, Newark. The author thanks Brantly Womack, Matthew J. Hoffmann, and an anonymous reader for their helpful comments on earlier drafts.
2. Asian Survey, 43:4, pp. 622-647. ISSN: 0004-4687 c 2003 by The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Send Requests for Permission to Reprint to: Rights and Permissions, University of California Press, Journals Division, 2000 Center St., Ste. 303, Berkeley, CA 94704-1223.
3. 1 Original ASEAN members are Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, and the Philippines. Brunei joined in 1984; Vietnam in 1995; Myanmar and Laos in 1997; Cambodia in 1999.
4. 2 Leo Suryadinata. China and the Southeast Asian States (Singapore: National University of Singapore, 1985), pp. 126-31; Rizal Sukma, Indonesia and China: The Politics of a Troubled Relationship (London: Routledge, 1999).
5. 3 Sukma, Indonesia and China, pp. 84-89, 104-110.