APEC–the group which brings together the countries of the Pacific Rim including the US, Russia, Japan and China–is meeting in Sydney next week and to mark the occasion former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating, one of the organisation’s creators, gave a speech and an interview lamenting its failure over the last ten years to turn into a regional security organisation. He makes some good points especially about the toxic relationship between China and Japan, which if anything is worse than when he left office ten years ago. Read the whole thing.
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