STORY: Adhering to APEC's original aspiration to open a new chapter in Asia-Pacific cooperation
SHOOTING TIME: Nov.14—16, 2023
DATELINE: Nov. 17, 2023
LENGTH: 00:02:05
LOCATION: Beijing
CATEGORY: POLITICS

SHOTLIST:
1. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): SELCUK COLAKOGLU, Director of Ankara-based Turkish Centre for Asia-Pacific Studies
2. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): MAHMOOD KHALID, Senior research economist at MacroPolicy lab, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
3. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): DINNA PRAPTO RAHARJA, Founder, Indonesian think-tank Synergy Policies

STORYLINE:

The 30th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting kicked off in San Francisco, the United States, on Thursday with an aim to build a more interconnected, innovative, and inclusive APEC region.

The two-day leaders' meeting is the highlight of the APEC Leaders' Week, held in San Francisco with the theme of "Creating a Resilient and Sustainable Future for All."

Many scholars have expressed their hopes that Asia-Pacific cooperation will continue foster development for all.

SOUNDBITE 1 (English): SELCUK COLAKOGLU, Director of Ankara-based Turkish Centre for Asia-Pacific Studies
"I think the main expectation here is to get a more positive move for leading economies to collaborate more in the region, and also that will be positive effects to the global economy in general." 

SOUNDBITE 2 (English): MAHMOOD KHALID, Senior research economist at MacroPolicy lab, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
"If we look at how the world is moving, unipolar powers may not be the future. We would have many polars where the economic strengths would be collaborating. And actually, the world has witnessed that. We see so many trade negotiations and agreements between the blocks. For example, this APEC (meeting). Now, the world has actually learned over time that it's a kind of cooperative behavior, where every stakeholder needs to sit together, understand the strengths, as well as the weaknesses of the other and try to cooperate so that the world can actually move forward."

SOUNDBITE 3 (English): DINNA PRAPTO RAHARJA, Founder, Indonesian think-tank Synergy Policies
"Having a dialogue such as APEC, bringing together the topic of resilience, where China is also offering a framework of cooperation, should be taken very positively.
China, as I understand has been trying to propose the idea of more inclusion. So that, China, as you understand, is one of the largest economies in Asia-Pacific and in the world. So, if China is advancing the idea of inclusion and a community together, the message is for peace." 

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Beijing.
(XHTV)