VIENTIANE: Having successfully wooed Asean’s support for it to join the inaugural East Asia Summit (EAS), Australia’s Foreign Minister Alexander Downer was drawn into yet another debate over his country’s “identity.”
“Am I an East Asian? I am an Australian. I think questions about who we are, are not questions that worry us.
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