Singapore's attempt to engage India predates its engagement of China, but the divergence between the positions of Singapore and New Delhi on Cold War-generated issues, primarily the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia, were accompanied by the city-state's growing closeness to Beijing. The end of the Cold War saw Sino-Singaporean relations continue to gain in depth, but it heralded a quieter and less-noticed change in the Republic's relations with India. “The end of bipolarity meant that these two states did not have to view mutual relations through the prism of their superpower preferences,” Kripa Sridharan notes. Hence, Singapore invested much energy in encouraging India's domestic economic reforms and inviting it to move beyond its central role in South Asia. This expansion of Indian influence began to take shape when, between 1992 and 1996, India first became a sectoral dialogue partner and then a full dialogue partner of ASEAN. India joined the ASEAN Regional Forum in 1996 after Singapore lobbied hard to overcome ASEAN's reluctance to include New Delhi because of fears that its entry would import the subcontinent's political and military tensions into the ARF. It took nearly a decade, from 1987 to 1996, for India to become a stable participant in the ASEAN process, this effort culminating in the first India-ASEAN summit held in Phnom Penh in 2002. “Singapore has accepted the role of India's ‘sponsor’ in Southeast Asia,” Satu P. Limaye avers, in words reminiscent of the city-state's attempts to bring China into the economic and political orbit of Southeast Asian relationships. Sridharan, too, believes that Singapore in particular among the ASEAN states has been “most alive and sensitive” to the changes underway in India. Although India is not, unlike China, Japan and South Korea, a part of the ASEAN+3 process, its status as an ASEAN dialogue partner and its expanding economic, political and security engagement with Southeast Asia have broken the impasse once created by New Delhi's dismissive attitude towards the region's pro-capital, pro-America, “Coca Cola governments”.