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本次的Speaker是关于奥巴马亚洲政策的点评，Speed是关于APEC相关内容，Obstacle是来自麦肯锡对于亚洲发展的观点，所以本期焦点：亚洲，亚洲，亚洲。

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Part I: Speaker

U.S., China To Do Away With Tariffs On Some Tech Products

Source: NPR

http://www.npr.org/2014/11/11/363214499/u-s-china-to-do-away-with-tariffs-on-some-tech-products

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Part II: Speed

APEC agrees to work on FTAAP

[Time 2]
In what Chinese President Xi Jinping called a "historic step", Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation members agreed on Tuesday to launch an effort to build a regional free trade framework.

Leaders of the 21 member economies agreed in Beijing to start work on the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific. Xi praised the agreement as a show of APEC's will to advance regional integration.

APEC member economies will begin studying issues surrounding the FTAAP and will submit recommendations by the end of 2016, according to a statement released after a two-day meeting of APEC leaders.

The FTAAP comes as the Washington-led Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiation has stalled due to disagreement between the US and Japan over agricultural tariffs.

China's goal is to "counter the growing trend of fragmentation in the region that directly undermines economic integration, not the TPP or any other specific free trade agreement", said Tang Guoqiang, president of China National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation.

Xi said in his APEC speech that the FTAAP does not go against existing free trade arrangements and can be the aggregate of existing free trade arrangements to consolidate regional integration and define long term goals.

Chinese experts said the free trade arrangements in the region are not mutually exclusive and they highlighted the leaders' desire to explore different means to achieve the goal of promoting trade and removing protectionism.
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[Time 3]
Fu Xiaolan, director of the Technology and Management for Development Center at University of Oxford, said APEC's Beijing road map for promoting the FTAAP will further strengthen free trade cooperation and competitiveness in Asia-Pacific. The collaboration among APEC members will prove beneficial for China's integration with the global trade system, Fu said.

Details of the FTAAP's implementation remain to be clarified, observers said. "The Asia Pacific region is a daunting concept and trying to understand it as a market with any degree of commonality is challenging," said Kerry Brown, executive director of the China Studies Center at the University of Sydney.

Brown said free trade agreements are the most predictable and best established means to link the domestic growth of each member with global growth.

"But this doesn't mean that the proposal to create a free trade zone across the Asia-Pacific region won't be a huge endeavor," he said.

The creation of a free trade zone needs a more specific framework with which to unleash the potential of the region, which represents the largest and most dynamic regional economic group in the world, he said.

To use its financial strength to boost the APEC's role as a regional free trade booster, China has pledged a contribution of $10 million to APEC to support its "institutional development and capacity building".

Xi announced on Tuesday that the country will provide 1,500 training positions to developing members of APEC to enhance their trade and investment.

"We need to expand financial and technological support to the developing members so that we can take advantage of the diversified and complementary roles of each member to achieve common growth in the region," Xi said. Zhang Chunyan in London contributed to the story.
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Source: ChinaDaily
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2014apec/2014-11/12/content_18899966.htm

listen to what Asia might have to say

[Time 4]
If our future is not to be dulled by the dead weight of the past, then a clearheaded prioritization of the issues of the 21st century needs to be undertaken. This means keeping Asia - and thus China - at the top of the list in the global conversation. So US President Barack Obama's diplomatic trip to Asia this week is welcome indeed.

President Obama has only two years of his eight-year presidency left but that's enough time for a more original, deeper contribution to the China-US history book than he has made so far. An eventual hot war between the two would not only be unaffordable but would be injurious to everyone. A better China policy by the US would be a kind of global affordable care act.

Up to now the much-hyped US "pivot" to Asia has been almost a self-deception, with Washington's mental energies glued to Syria far more than, for example, strategically situated Singapore. Thanks to the all-consuming domestic political pressures, rather than any lack of common sense, Washington is still ensnared in the miseries and poisons of the past. This has led to missed opportunities for carefully thought out China initiatives to be drawn up and implemented. Instead of continuing to be absorbed by the Middle East, Obama and his team over the next two years should spend more of their foreign-policy energy on Asia. There should be no reverse pivot back.
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[Time 5]
It is utterly foolish to assume that Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang don't have much to offer; in fact they impress almost everyone as being very capable indeed. And it is absolutely stupid to believe that simply because they are of the Communist persuasion they shouldn't be consulted and listened to by the US president and his team as often as their attention can be engaged. Only the moral infant - or the intellectually insecure - is attentive only to those with whom basic agreement is foretold, or easy to achieve.

Our diplomacy needs to get out from underneath the intellectual sloth of its bureaucracies and mix it up more with people who can bring something new to the table. In fact, there are a number of Asian leaders, especially Singapore's Lee Hsien Loong, Indonesia's Joko Widowo and the Philippines' Benigno Aquino, who can offer America different and invaluable perspectives. The world, as we all know, is now all but a universal global entity. We really all are in this together.

Let us listen more to others. After all, with unprecedented rapidity and scale, China ought to win some sort of global prize for so dramatically improving the economic lot of its 1.36 billion people. What the sprawling nation has accomplished in the last three decades is almost unbelievable - and probably unprecedented. On the tiny population end of the scale, of course, there is Singapore, which deserves some sort of global award for the best overall selection and implementation of national public policy over many decades. It has been some show there. The Philippines doesn't get much positive publicity, of course, but it has been making healthy strides, and resolutely deserves Washington's notice for remaining a democracy. Even the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, which has now dramatically released two captive Americans, finally looks to be considering joining the Asian parade. Indonesia is home to more Muslims than any other country - might not its new president be worth America's rapt attention on certain issues?
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[Time 6]
Huge obstacles threaten to derail the through-train to the future. The list - from the troubling unsettlement in Hong Kong (a situation which Beijing needs to negotiate further along careful lines) to the ever-present potential of religious extremism throughout the region - is long. But only one issue consistently merits top ranking. That is the relationship between China and America.

Sure, the governing elites of both countries should be able to maintain it at a minimum level - say, at least above the boiling point. But is that the best that we can do? Inspired statesmanship on both sides of the Pacific needs to raise the relationship to new heights. That's the real test for the governments in Beijing and Washington - taking it to the next level when many others seems pessimistic and tired and stuck in the past.

This is the challenge of our epoch. As far as I am concerned, the presidents of America and China cannot meet often enough. What's more important? Crossing into the frontiers of the 21st century means taking on the challenges of the new. The new now is the rise of Asia - led by China. It's rather obvious if you stop to think.

The author has written many books about Asia, from Conversations with Lee Kuan Yew to the current In the Middle of China's Future: Tom Plate on Asia. The veteran journalist recently completed a three-city lecture tour of China.
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Source: ChinaDaily
Source: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2014-11/12/content_18900926_2.htm

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Part III: Obstacle

Three paths to sustained economic growth in Southeast Asia
November 2014 | byJonathan Woetzel, Oliver Tonby, Fraser Thompson, Penny Burtt,
and Gillian Lee

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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) encompasses ten countries with a multitude of ethnicities and languages, as well as wide economic disparities. But these nations—Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam—are not only tied together by multiple threads of history and culture but also increasingly linked by business networks, trade relationships, migration, and shared resources. Today, almost five decades after ASEAN’s founding, it is pursuing a more ambitious form of economic integration as a tool for achieving broader prosperity and greater global competiveness.

The region has enjoyed remarkable economic progress in recent years; millions have been lifted out of poverty. Viewed as a single entity, ASEAN would rank as the world’s seventh-largest economy. But much of its recent growth has been generated by an expanding labor force and the shift of workers from agriculture to manufacturing. These factors will eventually fade, so there is new urgency for confronting the region’s low levels of productivity. To sustain economic growth, many member states will need to more than double their historical rates of productivity improvement.

A new report from the McKinsey Global Institute, Southeast Asia at the crossroads: Three paths to prosperity, finds that the region can address its productivity challenges and find new catalysts for growth by pursuing the opportunities associated with three global megatrends:

ASEAN can address its productivity challenges and find new catalysts for growth by capitalizing on global flows, urbanization, and technology.

Capturing a greater share of global trade flows. The global economy has become deeply interconnected as huge volumes of goods, services, capital, people, and data move across borders.

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ASEAN is well positioned to capitalize on this phenomenon: it is already the world’s fourth-largest exporting region, strategically located near China, India, and Japan. By 2025, more than half of the world’s consuming class will live within a five-hour flight of Myanmar. The region can build on these strengths in two ways. First, successful implementation of the ASEAN Economic Community integration plan could significantly increase trade and create a single market of 600 million consumers. Second, ASEAN can expand its free-trade agreements and attract additional production from multinationals as labor costs in China continue to rise. Together, these opportunities could create some $280 billion to $625 billion a year in economic value by 2030. To realize this potential, ASEAN will need to tackle restrictions on foreign investment, to develop a more competitive manufacturing sector, and to build critical foundations, such as infrastructure, logistics, and workforce skills.

Riding the urbanization wave. The booming cities of Southeast Asia account for more than 65 percent of the region’s GDP today, and more than 90 million people are expected to move to urban areas by 2030.2

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For more, see the McKinsey Global Institute report Urban world: The shifting global business landscape, October 2013.

This shift will support the continued growth of the consuming class, which could double, to 263 million households, by 2030. That would make ASEAN a pivotal market of the future for companies in a range of industries. Keeping pace with this growth and creating cities with a high quality of life will demand some $7 trillion of investments in infrastructure, housing, and commercial space. By 2030, the continued growth of cities could have an annual economic impact of some $520 billion to $930 billion.

Deploying disruptive technologies. Five related technologies—the mobile Internet, big data, the Internet of Things, the automation of knowledge work, and cloud technology—could modernize sectors across Southeast Asia and drive major productivity improvements.

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Within many industries, large value is at stake for companies that move quickly to digitize. Disruptive technologies could produce $220 billion to $625 billion in annual economic impact by 2030 if the public and private sectors can build out the necessary Internet backbone infrastructure and address workforce skills.

Global flows, urbanization, and disruptive technologies are already reshaping the region. But they are unlikely to lift it to the next level of economic development without deliberate strategies for capitalizing on them. Given the size of the potential prize and the importance of managing the associated risks, these three forces should be the focus of the region’s policy discussions—and businesses need to embed them in their strategic planning. The countries and companies that move quickly to seize the opportunities could secure advantages that last for decades to come. In all three of these areas, long-term thinking and investment could have an immediate economic impact while placing Southeast Asia on a faster and more sustainable trajectory through 2030.
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Source: Mckinsey
http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/energy_resources_materials/three_paths_to_sustained_economic_growth_in_southeast_asia

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time3   1:59
time4   1:29
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time6   1:43

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T2:2.23s
APECT facilitate to form regional free trade framework.
FTAAP is a trade negociation due to the distiction of taxif between America and Japan
the leaders of APEC are contributing themselevs to deal with protectism and promote trade.
T3:3.03s
FTAAP strengthens the relationship in A-P area
it is beneficial for china to integrate into the global market
it is a huge endeavor
it can dig up the potenialty of china and other countries.
china donate 10 dollars.
T3:2.55s
a better china policy of America should be adopted by us
because this would benefit to the world
US spend too much energy on middle east policy
T7:5.59s
ASEAN promote the economic integration ,and is regarded as 7th largest economy
the problem is how to increase the productivity
a researcher said this could be solved by 3 ways:global flows, urbanization and disruptive technology
the well-positioned location attracts the flows, the countries should deal with foreign investment(reduce restrictions)
urban develop because a demand of facilities
the policy of business should consider the policy of political in APECT

peggychianglove

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cyndichiang

Speaker
High tech products prosper but government often can not catch up with them.
ITA ha been updated since WTO and in APEC,China and the US want to cut tariffs on hign-tech products
Obama even came up with ambitious goal of free-trade agreement and he expects a sucessful result.
Emilination or reduction of tariffs would make it easier for US tech company to sell products.

Obstacle 4'12''
ASEAN economic growth depends on 3 paths: global flows,urbanizaton and disruptive techonology.
How to deal with the productivity problems?
1. intergration community 2. free-agreement with multiple countires  3.reduce restrictions on investment
4. deploy disruptive tech

joannahope

4'20 APEC is the regional free trade frameworld and it will end in 2016.FTAAP is the tran -pacific negotiation but the washington and japan get a disagreement for the agriculture tariff.
3'50 FTAAP strenghen the free trade corporation and competition  will is good for china.
china will contribute 10millionto apec for support the institute and develop the apec and provide 1500 train position to enhance the trade
4'20apec keep the Asion on the top .china and US keep a hot war will injurious everyone.Obama spent too much energy to make the policy for middle east.
time 5 and6 5' china donont have too much offer is wrong.
the relationship between china and Us is pessimistic
china led the new rise of Asian which is chanllenge the profit of  US

风随心动01

Speaker：
Amdrican and China reach an understanding that they will eliminate tariffs on high-tech goods to expand trades.

yatina

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FTAAP was built to promot trade in Asia.

3
Different sounds to judge this free trade agreement.

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Obama  and his team will pay more attention to Asia in his left two years.

5
Reasons for more listening: China, Sinapore, Indonesia, Philippines.

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Connection between China and America will be more tight in the futrue.

Obstacle
Introduction of ASEAN
Three global megatrends:
1.riding the urbanization wave
2.shipting global business landscape
3.deploying disruptive technologies