APEC
 APEC  (IGO)    | |
|---|---|
| Formation | 1989 |
| Type | international |
| Membership | •  Australia• Brunei • Canada • Chile • China • Hong Kong • Indonesia • Japan • South Korea • Malaysia • Mexico • New Zealand • Papua New Guinea • Peru • Philippines • Russia • Singapore • Taiwan • Thailand • United States • Vietnam |
| Economic forum made up of the 21 countries in the Pacific Rim, | |
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is an organisation. Member states are in the Asia-Pacific region.
Activities
The group has meetings.
Staff
In 2021, Jacinda Ardern is the chairperson.
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madeleine Albright | “President Clinton and I first met Putin before that
when he was kind of acting president at, this was an APEC meeting in New Zealand, and at that stage Putin was trying to be very ingratiating and trying to make new friends - he was still cold - and the issue about him is he is very smart and in these meetings. He did not have talking points and he took notes himself. He also is somebody I have to describe this because, they actually did kind of a jazz concert for President Clinton and President Clinton's driving around and Putin was sitting there like this..no rhythm whatsoever.. and and (sic), but the thing that is interesting is how smart he really is and directed he was. The thing that I speak to more is something that happened before, that in 91 when the Soviet Union had fallen apart I was running a think-tank and I was asked to participate in a big survey of all of Europe after the end of the Cold War, and we had questionnaires and focus groups and things like that, and the focus group I'll never forget, is one outside of Moscow where this man stands up and says "I'm so embarrassed we used to be a superpower and now we're Bangladesh with missiles". And what I think happened I write it not so easy not so difficult to really deduce this, is Putin identified himself with that person who felt that the dignity and the grandeur of Russia had been lost and he has is bound and determined to restore that in every single way.” | Madeleine Albright | 2018 |
Known members
20 of the 21 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| Australia | A large island nation in the southern hemisphere which is pioneering universal surveillance of its citizenry. |
| Brunei | Small kingdom in South-East-Asia |
| Canada | If tar sands are counted, Canada possesses the 3rd largest oil reserves of any nation state. |
| Chile | Spanish-speaking MEDC in South America. It occupies a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. |
| China | The most populous nation state in the world |
| Indonesia | A large nation in South East Asia |
| Japan | A populous country in East Asia. People are traditionally extremely law abiding by European standards. |
| Malaysia | Kingdom in Southeast Asia. Known for air disasters. |
| Mexico | "Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States!" |
| New Zealand | An island state next to Australia which "has become a preferred bolthole for the ultra rich". Aggressively used contact tracing and lockdowns during the COVID-19 event. |
| Papua New Guinea | |
| Peru | Nation state in South America with cocaine growing capacity used by the SDS |
| Russia | The largest nation state in the world |
| Singapore | Densely populated country in Asia. Tough immigration and opium laws. Former UK colony. |
| South Korea | Part of the great powers of Asia, South Korea was shaped by the US after the Korean War. Most companies in the entertainment and tech industries are owned antidemocratic by rich families that operate like governments of their own, bribing presidents and evading the law. |
| Taiwan | A large island of mainland China. De facto independent despite claiming to be the legitimate government over all of China. |
| Thailand | South east Asian kingdom. The first country to report a case of COVID outside China, on 13 January 2020 |
| The Philippines | Country in Asia with great soil for making amphetamines. It was a sex trafficking hub in the 2000s. It suffered a drug war similar to Mexico in the 2010s. |
| US | The United States is the single biggest military spender in the world, with a higher 2020 expenditure than the next ten countries combined. Its infrastructure has been described to be in disrepair since the late 1980s. |
| Vietnam | The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is the 15th most populous country. Known most famously for the Vietnam War. |
