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Launched in 1989 with twelve member states economies, today's twenty-one member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation or APEC is described as “the premier Asia-Pacific economic forum [whose] primary goal is to support
sustainable economic growth and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region.”
Excerpting, editing, re-reporting by
Carolyn Bennett
After this year’s meeting Pravda Ru spoke with Yevgeny
Fyodorov, a State Duma deputy and head of the Committee on Economic Policy and
Entrepreneurship of the Russian State Duma. Fyodorov came away from the 2012 APEC summit
in Vladivostok with the view of a displaced USA and APEC’s China-Russia rising.
Yevgeny Fyodorov said, “With the onset of
the global economic crisis, with political and economic turbulence, the APEC is
a key event in terms of the demonstration of new vectors of unity in the
international community outside the United States.”
It is “the key event in today’s global scenario.”
It is “the key event in today’s global scenario.”
International community unity vs. world consumer nation
APEC, Fyodorov said, is “the key and turning meeting of the
leaders of world’s largest economies, creating conditions to reformat the
entire economic system of the world ─ moving away from the United States, a
consumer nation.
… The United States consumes a half the world’s GDP despite
the fact that only 4.5 percent of the world population live in the United
States.
In other words, the U.S. 4.5 percent eat ten times as much compared
to the citizens of all other countries.
They eat at the expense of China, Russia, India, Brazil, and
all other countries.
According to Fyodorov, the APEC 2012 forum at Vladivostok showed
the United States’s gradual loss of absolute power in the world economy and
politics and, against that backdrop, the steadily rising power and influence of
other countries such as Russia and China.
Pulling away from USA
“Everyone still plays by American rules,” Fyodorov said, “but
the countries already demonstrate their independence in economic policy.”
Examples he gave were the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton’s China visit when “several Chinese leaders ─ especially those
who are to become top officials of China next year ─ did not want to meet her.”
China answered “no when Clinton wanted to take on mediator functions in
resolving China’s territorial disputes with Asian countries.” China also answered
“no in response to Clinton’s requirement (the United States’ annual requirement
of China, for political reasons) to set the Yuan rate.…
“Nowadays,” Fyodorov said, “the U.S. is refused. The world is changing.”
Withdrawn allegiance to mighty dollar
Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed “building a
large number of regional currencies as an alternative to the reserve system of
the dollar.” He has proposed initiatives to switch to mutual payments, moves already
taken by Russia and China.
“… The world begins to change fundamentally, and Russia’s
role at this point is to become the leader in changing the world, Fyodorov said.
Beyond occupation
Russia becomes a leader of “… and provider of ideas for the
world national liberation movement against the system of occupation,” he said.
“Today, the world begins to unite against the colonizer, the
United States of America. Though in conceptual and preparatory stages, “it
takes place.”
Preliminary results of the APEC meeting in the Far East reveal “future members of the world national liberation movement, [a movement] to free the world from the U.S. occupation.”
Preliminary results of the APEC meeting in the Far East reveal “future members of the world national liberation movement, [a movement] to free the world from the U.S. occupation.”
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eporting on the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
2012 Summit in Vladivostok, Russia, the Malaysian National News called it a celebration
of a dynamic regional grouping having an increasingly significant role in sustaining
global economic growth.
The twenty-one leaders of the APEC economies at the summit
reportedly signed many agreements and endorsed many proposals for action. On the
sidelines of the APEC Leaders’ Week (September 2-9), a number of bilateral
trade deals, business-to-business deals and joint venture plans worth billions of
dollars were also signed “to further increase the prosperity of member
economies.”
Today the prosperity of APEC, the report said, accounts “for
54 percent of world’s real Gross Domestic Product and 44 percent of world trade
[and] is expected ‘to do what it can to support the recovery of the global
economy.’” Malaysia is expected to host
the APEC summit in 2020.
Sources and notes
“Russia to liberate the world from U.S. occupation” (Elizaveta
Lavrentieva, Pravda.Ru contributing editor), September 21, 2012,
http://english.pravda.ru/russia/politics/21-09-2012/122236-russia_apec-0/
“APEC Economies Offer Strength for Sustaining Global Growth”
(Shanti Ayadurai,
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysian National News Agency, BERNAMA), September
23, 2012, http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v6/newsindex.php?id=696630#top
APEC Mission Statement
“APEC is the premier Asia-Pacific economic forum [whose] primary
goal is to support sustainable economic growth and prosperity in the
Asia-Pacific region.”
APEC champions “free and open trade and investment,
promoting and accelerating regional economic integration, encouraging economic
and technical cooperation, enhancing human security, and facilitating a
favorable and sustainable business environment.” http://www.apec.org/About-Us/About-APEC/Mission-Statement.aspx
APEC History
The idea of APEC was publicly broached in January 1989 by
former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke during a speech in Seoul, Korea.
Later that year, twelve Asia-Pacific economies met in Canberra, Australia, to
establish APEC. The founding members were: Australia, Brunei Darussalam,
Canada, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines,
Singapore, Thailand and the United States.
In 1991, China, Hong Kong, China and Chinese Taipei joined. In
1993, Mexico and Papua New Guinea; in 1994, Chile and in 1998, Peru, Russia and
Viet Nam joined taking the full membership to twenty-one. http://www.apec.org/About-Us/About-APEC/History.aspx
APEC Member Economies
APEC has 21 members. The word ‘economies’ is used to
describe APEC members because the APEC cooperative process is predominantly
concerned with trade and economic issues, with members engaging with one
another as economic entities.
APEC Members and Date of Joining
Australia: 6-7 Nov 1989
Brunei Darussalam: 6-7 Nov 1989
Canada : 6-7
Nov 1989
Chile: 11-12 Nov 1994
People’s Republic of China: 12-14 Nov 1991
Hong Kong, China: 12-14 Nov 1991
Indonesia: 6-7 Nov 1989
Japan: 6-7 Nov 1989
Republic of Korea: 6-7 Nov 1989
Malaysia: 6-7 Nov 1989
Mexico: 17-19 Nov 1993
New Zealand: 6-7 Nov
1989
Papua New Guinea: 17-19 Nov 1993
Peru: 14-15 Nov 1998
The Philippines: 6-7 Nov 1989
Russia: 14-15 Nov 1998
Singapore: 6-7 Nov 1989
Chinese Taipei: 12-14 Nov 1991
Thailand: 6-7 Nov
1989
The United States: 6-7 Nov 1989
Viet Nam: 14-15 Nov 1998
http://www.apec.org/
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