The main heads of state and head of government in the world this week twice in the affairs of Asia: me now on Twitter too! world.
A true marathon summit in Japan and South Korea, boasting that decide the economic and political destiny of the world more and more in Asia. No sooner is the global biodiversity conference in Nagoya, Japan with an unexpected success has been completed, begin on Monday, the preparatory meeting of the G20 summit of top 20 Industrial and emerging economies in South Korea, discussing where the Heads of State and Government in mid-week the global monetary and economic policy and approve China's gain in power in the International Monetary Fund.
The following weekend, then meet the international arm of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec), of which the most powerful are also among the G20, in Yokohama, Japan again. The focus then is an Asia-Pacific growth strategy, with the boom in Asia and the west coast of North and South America want to fully implement a World Trade Center. Europe Only fence.
In both cases, the hosts try to ensure that the summit meeting to be milestones. Special zeal to produce a success sets, while South Korea on the day. Because the country is the first time the chairman of such important global meeting and wants to prove to the economic rise now as a diplomatic power.
"It's an important time for the G20, so far their agreements into concrete action," demanded South Korea President Lee Myung-bak on Wednesday by his research colleagues. Especially the South Koreans want to work to ensure that the most powerful statesmen of the world agree on concrete guidelines on how the states away by closer coordination of exchange rate policy impending currency wars and reduce trade imbalances.
Lee was confident that the summit participants are still vague results of the G20 finance ministers meeting will be driving from the previous month, "one step further." Also, a global growth strategy with country-specific targets are set. Also wants Lee set a lasting memorial: an action plan for economic development in the poorest countries in the world.
Japan also wants to make the APEC meeting, which opened on Tuesday of next week begin with a meeting at ministerial level, in many respects, a landmark economic policy. First, it is the hosts aim to outline a vision for the future of the Pacific coastal states. An important component will be the draft growth strategy for the region.
"It is the first time that the leaders discuss this in the context of Apec, "says a Japanese diplomat, the importance of this agenda item. In addition, do actually talk about the ways in which the ultimate long-term goal, a trans-Pacific free trade zone, can be achieved.
least Japan's government is making great efforts, the APEC summit on this issue impetus to give. Even before the summit, the government will decide whether they are in discussions to join a trans-Pacific Partnership Agreements (TPP). So far, any discussion of the TPP is already in approaches failed because of the powerful farming lobby. The painting at a loss of tariff barriers for agricultural products the decline of the domestic farm goods to the wall.
is diplomatically the meeting but for the hosts to a limbo. Because with two of the main host countries, with China and Russia, escalating in recent weeks, long simmering territorial conflicts. It is therefore uncertain whether Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev may make personal calls.
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