Asia Sentinel, 19 Jun 2009, Terry Lacey
The Southeast Asian alliance needs to grow up
As Jusuf Wanandi pointed out recently in Indonesian media, Asia is getting more motivated and better structured so it should be able to follow on from the October 2008 Western economic crisis and reinforce the role of the G20, effectively helping to replace the G8 rich man’s club of Western nations.
But constraints must be resolved, or the region could miss the bus to more rapid recovery, by going too slowly on global and regional economic change.
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