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Speeches and Transcripts: 1999

Asia Society

 

This section has been developed in an effort to capture and extend the life of the vast array of programs happening in New York and at Asia Society’s regional centers. It features the full text of speeches, lectures and panel discussions presented at the Asia Society by the world leaders, policy-makers, commentators, academics, business people, authors, artists and others who regularly address Asia Society audiences.

Nicholas Platt, Robert Thompson, Merit Janow, Richard Boucher, Mark Levinson, Ritu Sharma, and Edward Cloonan
WTO and the Future of US-Asia Trade
December 10, 1999, New York

Vice Admiral Walter F. Doran
Commander, U.S. Seventh Fleet
December 7, 1999, Hong Kong

Kunan Anand Panyarachun
Former Prime Minister of Thailand
November 26, 1999, Melbourne

Bates Gill
Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution
November 18, 1999, Hong Kong

Rupert Murdoch
Chairman and Chief Executive, The News Corporation, Limited
November 8, 1999, Sydney

Philip Oldenburg, Ashutosh Varshney, Jairam Ramesh
Columbia University, University of Notre Dame, AICC
November 2, 1999, New York

Joydeep Mukherji, Deepak Parekh, W. Bowman Cutter, Narayanan Vaghul
Standard & Poor's, HDFC, Ltd., E.M. Warburg Pincus, ICIC
November 2, 1999, New York

Marshall M. Bouton, Radha Kumar, Lieutenant General V.R. Raghavan, Frank G. Wisner
Asia Society, Council on Foreign Relations, Delhi Policy Group, AIG
November 2, 1999, New York

Benjamin A. Gilman
Congressman (R-NY); Chairman, House International Relations Committee
U.S. Policy Toward North Korea
October 21, 1999, Washington, D.C.

Lynn Pascoe
United States Ambassador to Malaysia
Malaysia and the United States: A View from the Ground
October 20, 1999, Washington, D.C.

Martin S. Indyk
Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs, U.S. State Department
Iran and the United States: Prospects for a New Relationship
October 14, 1999, Washington, D.C.

Lawrence H. Summers
U.S. Treasury Secretary
The United States and China at the Dawn of a New Century
October 12, 1999, New York

Rafael B. Buenaventura
Governor, Central Bank of the Philippines
Lessons Learned and Banking Sector Reform Priorities in the Philippines
October 1, 1999, New York

Jerome S. Fons
Moody’s Investors Service
Asia’s Banking Systems Still At Risk
October 1, 1999, New York

Gary Hufbauer
Institute for International Economics
The Challenge to G-7 Regulators
October 1, 1999, New York

Yong-Keun Lee
Vice Chairman, Financial Supervisory Commission
Update on the Restructuring in Korea
October 1, 1999, New York

Mar’ie Muhammad
Former Finance Minister, Indonesia
Indonesia: From Uncertainty to Certainty
October 1, 1999, New York

Hubert Neiss
Director, Asia and Pacific Department, International Monetary Fund
The Handling of the Asian Crisis (Keynote Address)
October 1, 1999, New York

Amaret Sila-On
Chairman, Financial Sector Restructuring Authority, Thailand
Remarks by Amaret Sila-On
October 1, 1999, New York

Kiatchai Sophastienphong
Director, Financial Institutions Policy Department, Bank of Thailand
Financial Sector Reform and Corporate Debt Restructuring: Thailand’s Experience
October 1, 1999, New York

Christine Wallich
Director, Infrastructure, Energy and Financial Sectors Department and Head, Private Sector Group, Asian Development Bank
Governance in the Banking Sector
October 1, 1999, New York

Harrison Young
Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Asia, Ltd.
Promoting Banking System Reform
October 1, 1999, New York

Alexander Downer
Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs
Change in Asia—An Australian Perspective
September 28, 1999, New York

Dato Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad
Prime Minister Of Malaysia
Financial Stability through Exchange Controls: Malaysia’s Experience
September 27, 1999, New York

Lee Hoi-Chang
President, Grand National Party of the Republic of Korea
Korea’s Economic and Political Challenges for the New Millennium
September 13, 1999, New York

Keizo Takemi
State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Japan
Capacity Building for Human Dignity: The Essence of the International Order in the 21st Century
September 1, 1999, New York

Alexander Downer
Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs
Australia and Asia—Traders and Partners
August 19, 1999, Perth, Australia

Kevin Rudd
Federal Minister for Griffith (Australia)
War and Peace on the Korean Peninsula
August 3, 1999, Melbourne, Australia

John Howard
Prime Minister of Australia
How Financial Reform is Working for Australia
July 15, 1999, New York

Jim Kolbe
U.S.-China Relations in the 21st Century: Dawn of a New Era?
June 24, 1999, Washington, D.C.

Stanley Fischer
First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
The Asian Crisis: The Return of Growth
June 17, 1999, Hong Kong

Kofi Annan
Secretary-General of the United Nations
President’s Forum
June 9, 1999, New York

Morris Chang
Chairman, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
Asia is Behind—A Perspective of the Technology Industry
May 27, 1999, Hong Kong

Amaret Sila-On
Chairman, Financial Sector Restructuring Authority, Thailand
Financial Restructuring in Thailand
May 26, 1999, Hong Kong

Dominic Casserly and Gregg Gibbs
McKinsey & Company, Inc. Banking in Asia: The End of Entitlement
May 11, 1999, Hong Kong

David Ho
Director, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center
Lessons Learned from the AIDS Epidemic
March 23, 1999, Hong Kong

Speeches from Asia Socitety’s 10th Annual Corporate Conference
Asia’s Choice: Open Markets or Government Control?
February 24–26, 1999

Lee P. Brown
Mayor of Houston
Asia and Houston
February 22, 1999

John H. Chang
Cross-Strait Relations after Taiwan’s 1998 Elections
February 5, 1999, New York

Congressman Manuel A. Roxas
The Philippines: Social and Political Outlook
February 3, 1999, Hong Kong

Howard Balloch
China in Transition: A Canadian View
February 2, 1999, Hong Kong

Charlene Barshefsky
Toward the Pacific Community: American Trade Policy in Asia
January 21, 1999

Cyrus R. Vance
Former US Secretary of State
US-Iran Relations: Has the Time Come?
January 13, 1999