The Cold War Never Ended in Asia

... created in 1954 the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) to fight communism in Asia; the initiative ran into many problems from the very outset and fell apart after the US defeat in Vietnam. In the North, all US attempts to unite Japan and the Republic of Korea under a shared security umbrella were not successful due to complicated relations between Seoul and Tokyo. Not surprisingly, in Asia there were no attempts to sign any Cold War final settlement document similar to the Charter of Paris for a New Europe (also known as the Paris Charter) of 1990, which was supposedly based on the communality of liberal democratic values and on a common understanding of what direction Europe ...