What Asia most needs today is a well-conceived regional system, embedded in binding multilateral institutions. A “Trans-Pacific Partnership” between Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the US, and Vietnam to govern supply-chain management, intellectual-property protection, investment, rules on state-owned firms, and other trade issues – likely to be announced in Hawaii – is a good start in the economic sphere.
当前亚洲急需一个构建在有约束力的多边体制之上，能令各方安心的区域体制。而由澳洲，文莱，智利，马来西亚，新西兰，秘鲁，新加坡，美国和越南等国构建，致力于供应链管理，知识产权保护，投资，国有企业管理和其他贸易议题的“泛太平洋伙伴关系”可能会在夏威夷会议上宣布设立——这在经济方面开了一个好头，但这只是我们迈出的第一步。