The geopolitically inclined will remember NATO’s impotent cousin SEATO, the South East Asia Treaty Organization. It was assembled in 1954 to deal with the threat of Communist insurgency in the ...

While Siamese sparrows cheeped in the louvers and winged overhead among the gilded arabesques, statesmen from eight nations sat down in Bangkok’s Ananda Samakom palace last week and, in the ...

The exercise was billed grandly as SEATO's "first joint international sea, air and land maneuvers." Thailand, which thought it up, declared that all eight nations had been invited to ...

Unlike NATO, though, Seato failed as an alliance, offering a caution as President Biden pursues a “defensive perimeter” in Asia. Seato was a “no trespassing” sign warning the communist tyrants at ...

“By the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in 2027, the centennial goal of military development should be achieved, and by 2035 the country should ...

The leaders of several SEATO countries in front of the Congress Building in Manila, hosted by Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos on October 24, 1966. SEATO, also known as the “Manila Pact ...

The China issue covers a range of areas—military, trade, technology, academia, and so on—meaning different countries will have different priorities, and making certain nations more valuable U ...

SEATO, the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, ... President Trump should lead an effort to reconstitute SEATO, which would include past members as well as new countries, ...

A: Both organizations went kaput-o in the late '70s. The Southeast Asia Treaty was formed in 1954 with the aim of blocking the spread of communism in the region. Eight nations were members. But ...