The prevalent arrangements in security/military cooperation
in the Asia-Pacific was affected by bipolarity of the cold war
• Essentially, the arrangements were bilateral alliances and
military partnerships between an Asian state and an extraregional major power in each camp
• For example, the bilateral defence treaty between US and
Japan, US and the Philippines, US and South Korea, US and
Thailand, US and Taiwan and Soviet Union and Vietnam
• The only regional/multilateral security cooperation was SEATO
(1954 to 1977) headed by the US and the consultative