United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was in Hanoi in early October for the first-ever Association of Southeast Asian Nations Plus 8 (ASEAN-Plus 8) defense ministers' meetings at a time when there was considerable discord in Asia.
At these meetings, the ASEAN nations (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines
, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) were joined by the "Plus 8" nations - Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Russia and the US.
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