When President Trump spoke in the White House Rose Garden to launch his wrecking-ball “fair and reciprocal tariffs”, there were some in the audience...
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ABAC to Encourage Digital Revolution in the APEC Region for Businesses Large and Small
Remove San Francisco, 28 February 2016 – Prioritizing both domestic and regional economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region by taking focusing the work of the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) in 2016 on promoting an integrated approach to economic and policy...
ABAC Dialogue with APEC Economic Leaders (2015)
Remove Here’s an extremely informative video presenting ABAC’s report to APEC Economic Leaders this...
APEC – inter-dependence, inclusiveness, integration
Remove For New Zealanders APEC is normally something that happens in exotic locales like Vladivostok (2012), Bali (2013), Beijing (2014) or this year in Manila. New Zealand last hosted in 1999 and we will do so again in 2021. APEC is the way the 21 governments...
Dreaming of the Asia Pacific
Remove “APEC blue” they called it – not, for once, a sense of disappointment about opportunities not taken, but rather the deep blue sky that provided the perfect backdrop for the pronouncements of this year’s meeting of APEC Economic Leaders. Helped by the closure...