Foreword
As a Dane living in Asia for more than five years, working in international relations and married to a woman born in Vietnam having lived with me in Denmark for a number of years, it is a privilege to write the Foreword to this book.
The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) was born out of wedlock in the sense that when the Europeans and Asians — or should we say East Asians — met in 1996, the Europeans had got their act together through the European Union (EU) while the East Asians were, and still are, non-institutionalised. As many people saw it the purpose was to use the strength and buoyancy of the East Asian economies as a vehicle to shape some kind of mechanism for dialogue or cooperation between Europe and Asia.
Both with regard to substance ...
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