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East Asian Integration is Test for Big Powers

    First published in Financial Times on December 14, 2005. Based on a speech to the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.

    https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812771346_0006Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)
    Abstract:

    In 1999, while recovering from the Asian financial crisis that wreaked havoc on his country's economy, Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia's then prime minister, claimed that had a regional monetary fund existed, “the East Asian currency crisis of 1997 and 1998 would not have occurred, would not have endured and would not have gone to such ridiculous depths”.