THE CONCEPT OF SOUTHEAST ASIA
• After World War II, at the Quebec Conference
in August 1943, the Western Allies decided to
establish a separate South East Asia Command
(SEAC), embracing Burma, Malaya, Sumatra
and Thailand. The Potsdam Conference in July
1945 extended SEAC's responsibility to cover
the rest of the Netherlands East Indies and
Indochina south of the sixteenth parallel,
excluding only northern Vietnam, the
Philippines and Laos.