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Dr Surin Pitsuwan, Asean Secretary-General
Stephen Sackur interviews Surin Pitsuwan, Secretary-General of Asean, the south-east Asian nations group which talks of EU-style integration. How far can regional co-operation go?
Stephen Sackur interviews Dr Surin Pitsuwan, the Secretary-General of Asean, the group of south-east Asian nations which talks of EU-style integration. As economic power shifts eastwards so Asian nations are faced with new strategic challenges: how does China relate to its neighbours; how far can regional cooperation go? We are living in what's already been dubbed the Asian Century. Asean's rhetoric is ambitious but what about the reality?
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Wed 24 Feb 2010
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