The rise of Asia 70 years after Bandung
Calenda 2024-08-07
Summary:
There is no question that Asia has been rising. The question is, what impact does it have on the world? Or, to be more positive-progressive-prospective, what “desirable impacts” should it have on the world?One way to answer the question may be to look back at the Bandung Conference, which represented the common and shared dreams of Asian and African peoples, as formulated formally in the Final Communiqué of the Bandung Conference and informally in the expression “Bandung Spirit”. So, with the rise of Asia 70 years after Bandung, what are the possibilities to build the world anew?