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Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)

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The idea of APEC was firstly publicly broached by the former Prime Minister of Australia Bob Hawke during a speech in Seoul, Korea, on 31 January 1989. Ten months later, 12 Asia-Pacific economies met in Canberra, Australia, to establish APEC. The founding members were Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and the United States.

China; Hong Kong, China; and Chinese Taipei joined in 1991. Mexico and Papua New Guinea followed in 1993. Chile acceded in 1994. And in 1998, Peru; Russia; and Viet Nam joined, taking the full membership to 21.Major Summits have been held in the last decade in. 2019 • Santiago, Chile, 2018 • Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 2017 • Da Nang, Viet Nam, 2016 • Lima, Peru, 2015 • Manila, Philippines, 2014 • Beijing, China, 2013 • Bali, Indonesia, 2012 • Vladivostok, Russia, 2011 • Honolulu, United States, 2010 • Yokohama, Japan and 2009 • Singapore.

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Harris, P., Harris, I. (2020). Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). In: Harris, P., Bitonti, A., Fleisher, C.S., Skorkjær Binderkrantz, A. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Interest Groups, Lobbying and Public Affairs . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13895-0_169-1

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