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HARDtalk: Dr Surin Pitsuwan, Asean Secretary-General

24/02/2010

Dr Surin Pitsuwan, Asean Secretary-General

BBC News Channel - HARDtalk, Dr Surin Pitsuwan, Asean Secretary-General

As economic power shifts eastwards to Asia, how far can regional co-operation go?

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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