Asia-Pacific community should be beacon to other parts of world, says Australian economist

CANBERRA, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- "The Asia-Pacific community should stand in the world and be a beacon to other parts of the world," said Peter Drysdale, a renowned…

CANBERRA, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- "The Asia-Pacific community should stand in the world and be a beacon to other parts of the world," said Peter Drysdale, a renowned Australian economist, in a recent interview with Xinhua in Canberra. As the head of the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research and East Asia Forum at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University, Drysdale said that projectin