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PECC Statement to 22nd APEC Ministerial Meeting
11 November 2010 (Yokohama)
 Dr. Charles E. Morrison, Co-Chair of PECC and President of the East West Center, delivered PECC Statement to APEC Ministers on behalf of the Council and Co-Chair, Mr. Jusuf Wanandi, Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta.
The Statement highlighted the results from PECC's ongoing research programs. PECC's 19th General Meeting was held in Tokyo a few weeks before the APEC Leaders' Week in Yokohama. The Statement highlights the uncertain economic outlook and need for rebalancing, ways to enhance social resilience, the challenges facing the multilateral trading system, pathways towards regional economic integration.
PECC's State of the Region 2010-2011 was also released during APEC Leaders' Week in Yokohama. The PECC delegation to Yokohama included Dr. Charles E. Morrison (PECC Co-Chair), Dr. Tan Khee Giap (SINCPEC Chair), Mr. Yuen Pau Woo (Coordinator of State of the Region report/ CANCPEC), Ms. Naoko Saiki (JANCPEC Executive Director), Mr. Eduardo Pedrosa (Secretary General) and Ms. Jessica Yom (PECC International Secretariat).
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10 November 2010 (Yokohama)
 Even as the economic recovery from the downturn of 2009 gathers momentum across much of Asia-Pacific, there is great uncertainty in the region about the durability of the recovery. The risk of another economic downturn stems less from a renewed bout of financial sector problems than from a failure of international economic cooperation.
This year's annual report, State of the Region was released at a media briefing held in the International Media Center on the sidelines of APEC Leaders' and Senior Official Meetings. Mr. Yuen Pau Woo, as the Coordinator of the Report, briefed the press and took questions from the media who attended. Also at the panel were Dr. Charles Morrison (Co-Chair/ USAPC), Ms. Naoko Saiki (JANCPEC), and Mr. Eduardo Pedrosa (Secretary General).
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Discussion Forum
Mr. Yuen Pau Woo (CANCPEC)
President, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
Canada's Place as Asia Moves into Driver's Seat of Global Governance
The world economy has been on a roller coaster ride since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008. A deep plunge in economic output through the greater part of 2009 was followed by a sharp upturn, only to settle now into what can be described as a period of great uncertainty. More...
Prof. Peter Petri
Brandeis University
(reproduced with permission from an article which appeared on Nihon Keizai Shimbun on 8 November 2010)
The TPP Needs Japan
The intense debate in the Democratic Party of Japan—on whether Japan should join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations, an initiative spanning nine countries on both sides of the Pacific, including the United States—has far-reaching implications not just for Japan but for the region and the world. More...
Prof. Christopher Findlay (AUSPECC)
University of Adelaide
(Cross-posted from East Asia Forum)
Japan: To TPP or Not to TPP
Japanese politicians are still debating whether Japan should join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). TPP members are not allowed exclusions. Agriculture is the issue, specifically the domestic political constraints imposed by protection of that sector in Japan. At the same time, the business sector is pushing hard to join. More...
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