许多人将成立东盟的五个非共产主义国家 — — 印尼、马来西亚、菲律宾、新加坡和泰国 — — 视为多米诺骨牌，只要有一个邻国导向共产主义，或陷入内乱，这些国家就会逐个崩溃。
Many viewed the five non-Communist states that founded ASEAN – Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand – as dominoes, set to be tipped over by a neighbor’s fall to communism or descent into civil strife.