Davos Annual Meeting 2008 - The Emerging Asian Community

http://www.weforum.org/annualmeeting 25.01.2008
The Emerging Asian Community: The Role of ASEAN
East Asia, consisting of ASEAN plus China, Japan and South Korea, represents nearly 2 billion people, holds close to US$ 3 trillion in foreign exchange reserves and generates nearly a quarter of the world's economic output.

How will the historic signing of the ASEAN Charter change the region's future political economy and its approach to global concerns over climate change and human rights? What are the key next steps to creating a European-style economic community by 2015?

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Prime Minister of Malaysia
Stephen Green, Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings, United Kingdom
Lee Hsien-Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, President of the Philippines

With
Cham Prasidh, Senior Minister, Minister of Commerce of Cambodia
Hoang Trung Hai, Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam
Kosit Panpiemras, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand
Pehin Lim Jock Seng, Second Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Brunei
Surin Pitsuwan, Secretary-General, ASEAN (Association of South-East Asian Nations), Jakarta
Soulivong Daravong, Minister of Planning and Investment of Laos
N. Hassan Wirajuda, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia

Co-Chaired by
David J. O'Reilly, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Chevron, USA; Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2008
Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum

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[mikomiko321]

Wow, our Madame President got introduced first with a compliment.

[dakewlguy]

to correct you.India is FYI number 3 after China in terms of GDP..and Indonesia is above singapore and the rest.. it is the largest SE economy..idiot

[krislyttle]

I view the establishment of ASEAN to be critical to global trade and security, certainly within the region as a whole, i.e., it is now less likely (though not totally impossible, I'll admit) that no one country, within ASEAN as well as many non-members (like China) can get away with the disastrous policies they once did in the past.

I wish ASEAN the best of success.

[nimitzclass]

And, by the way, PM Lee studied in Cambridge and Harvard and was a top student in these world class universities. President Arroyo was a student in Georgetown University where she was a classmate of Bill Clinton. So, it wouldn't seemed too far-fetched that they speak English, I's say.

[ishaq029]

wow...madame President....small but terrible

[EvOxioN17]

1.china

2.japan .. yea china outgunned japan

[Chhaylin]

ok...

nothing new, just waste of time to be there.

[shrewdacumen]

As in order of people's life level,

1. Singapore

1. South Korea

2. JAPAN

3. CHINA and so on...

[sdblackshade]

what?

[mhching92]

is it really of such surprise that southeast asians are using english?

[ilovebayern]

it is just amazing that all the south-east countries leaders are able to use English.