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South East Asia isn’t a country and ASEAN has less political fellow feeling than Europe does in the EU. I sincerely doubt the Thai or Malaysian government much
by barry-cotter 8y ago
South East Asia isn’t a country and ASEAN has less political fellow feeling than Europe does in the EU. I sincerely doubt the Thai or Malaysian government much care whether a Singaporean or an American company is the dominant player in their local ride hailing industry.
- inawarminister 8y agoIndeed, for example, the Indonesian Go-Jek expansion to Vietnam and Philippines are hitting up quite big moat/barrier of the respective governance. Even with the much-lauded ASEAN, I think Southeast Asia is much less integrated than, say, South America. Or even Africa(n Union). Might be because all the diversity in language, religion, and culture here. [There's push to make Malay a working language of ASEAN, if the non-Austronesians agree this would make much sense than using English which is only spoken by the elite few of each countries (minus Singlish and perhaps Malaysian... Or Filipinos.)]