

They reaffirmed their commitment to building greater regional economic resilience by facilitating trade, investment, and secure and resilient supply chains. EAS Economic Ministers acknowledged ASEAN’s centrality in regional post-pandemic recovery. The 10th EAS Economic Ministers' Meeting was held in Siem Reap on 17 September 2022, chaired by Cambodia. Foreign Ministers discussed strategic challenges facing the region, including the situation in Myanmar, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, maritime security and the South China Sea, the Korean Peninsula, counter-terrorism, disinformation, and climate change. The 12th EAS Foreign Ministers' Meeting was held on 5 August 2022 in Phnom Penh.

The 18th EAS will take place in late 2023 in Indonesia ‒ the 2023 ASEAN and EAS Chair. EAS leaders discussed regional issues including food and energy insecurity caused by Russia’s illegal and immoral invasion of Ukraine, concerns over escalating violence and the worsening humanitarian situation in Myanmar, climate action, rules-based trade (RCEECP and AANZFTA), the South China Sea and the Korean Peninsula. The 17th EAS was held on 13 November 2022 in Phnom Penh, chaired by Cambodia. Recent activities in the EAS East Asia Summit 2022 EAS Senior Officials and EAS Ambassadors in Jakarta meet regularly to discuss emerging issues, to prepare for EAS meetings, and to take forward decisions by EAS leaders.Ī dedicated EAS Unit within the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta also supports the monitoring and implementation of decisions by EAS leaders. Meetings of the EAS Environment, Energy, and Education Ministers are also held regularly.Īdditional support for the EAS is provided through EAS Senior Officials' Meetings (SOM) and EAS Ambassadors' Meetings in Jakarta (EAMJ). These also serve as platforms for frank discussion of political, regional security, and economic issues and prepare for the Leaders' Summit, including by developing statements for leaders' consideration of new areas of cooperation and mutual understanding. In addition to the Leaders' Summit, meetings of EAS Foreign Ministers and Economic Ministers are held annually. In addition to their discussions, leaders issue joint statements on topical issues, to signal political will for framing policy responses and to provide a basis for cooperation. The EAS calendar culminates in the annual Leaders' Summit, which is usually held alongside ASEAN Leaders' meetings in the fourth quarter of every year. In 2021-22, Australia's two-way trade with EAS countries was worth A$771.6 billion, 73.0 per cent of total two-way trade. It includes eight of Australia's top ten trading partners. In 2022, EAS members represented 52.8 per cent of the world's population and accounted for 60.4 per cent of global GDP. ASEAN leads the forum, and the chair position rotates between ASEAN Member States annually. The EAS has 18 members - the ten ASEAN countries (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam) along with Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea, Russia and the United States. Australia participated, as a founding member, in the inaugural EAS held in Kuala Lumpur on 14 December 2005. It is the only leader-led forum at which all key Indo-Pacific partners meet to discuss political, security and economic challenges facing the region, and has an important role to play in advancing closer regional cooperation. ACPAA - Locating Chinese patent agencies using agency codes (PDF, 1.The East Asia Summit (EAS) is the Indo-Pacific's premier forum for strategic dialogue.PSS - Retrieving a machine translation (English interface) (PDF, 1.3 MB).CNIPA - Monitoring Chinese publications by IPC classes (PDF, 710 KB).CNIPA - Retrieving Chinese documents (PDF, 1.4 MB).
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