EU for Asia Brussels Briefing – 15 November 2011
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EU for Asia Brussels Briefing – 15 November 2011
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The global financial and economic crises represent an unprecedented challenge to the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) community. Confidence in the architecture of the global economy and its institutions has been shaken resulting in a climate of global uncertainty and vulnerability. More cooperation between Asia and Europe is required in order to build a stronger international monetary and financial system.
Venue: European Parliament, Brussels Belgium
Date: 29 April 2009
Number of Participants: 20 participants including 4 presenters
07.06.2011
In 1960, Sub-Saharan Africa was considerably richer per capita than Southeast Asia, but the position was reversed in the 1980s and now Southeast Asia is more than twice as rich per capita. Speakers at an EPC Briefing debated the reasons for African economic stagnation and retardation, and the strong contrast between the regions. Perceptions that Asian success is due to industrial exports are misleading - early growth and poverty reduction was based on agricultural and rural development. Africa has not learned from this, giving low priority to rural and agricultural development.
16.05.2011
Edward Pietrzyk, Ambassador of Poland to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) illustrated his personal impression of North Korea with a series of photographs. He stressed the resourcefulness, openness and friendliness of average people of North Korea.
The photographs presented the omnipresent state’s ideology and propaganda, which are designed to mobilise the people in their struggle to build a prosperous country. The cult of Kim Il Sung, the founder of North Korea, who died in 1994, is still very pronounced.
29.11.2010
Japan’s domestic political landscape has changed drastically since the Democratic Party of Japan (DJP) came to power and Hatoyama Yukio was inaugurated as prime minister on 16 September 2009.
Prime Minister Yukio attempted to shift from an agenda focused on the United States to a regional security framework based on relations with neighboring states. He eventually failed when the US rejected Japanese demands that American military facilities on Okinawa be re-located. Prime Minister Kan Naoto was appointed as the new head of government on 8 June 2010.
The Japan-US military alliance remains a key feature of Japan's security strategy, although its focus seems to be shifting from the Soviet Union and its allies, to North Korea and more tacitly China.
