ABSTRACT
Moscow has been working overtime to tout its "Asian collective security system" in Southeast Asia. Now that the United States has readjusted its strategy in Asia following its defeat in, and withdrawal from, Indo-China, the Soviet Union is making a fresh attempt to step into the shoes of the United States and establish hegemony in Southeast Asia. Soviet envoys in Southeast Asian countries have been particularly profuse these days in talking about the benefit of having an "Asian collective security system." The "Asian collective security system" dished up by the Soviet social-imperialists under the signboard of "peace" and "security" is designed to serve nothing but the Kremlin's policies of aggression and expansion. It is contrived for the purpose of contending with the United States for hegemony in Asia, dividing the Asian countries, and bringing small and medium sized Asian countries into their sphere of influence.
