Latin America's Evolving Integration with Asia-Pacific Region

In the past two decades, Asia-Pacific one of the world’s most diverse geographic regions has emerged as a global centre of heightened power and influence. Its economic vitality is already demonstrated by the phenomenal increase in its gross national product (GNP), trade and industrial activity characteristic of the region’s most important countries such as Japan, China, Korea and Australia. So much so, the dawn of the present century is widely acknowledged as the advent of the “Pacific Century”.