Doesn't it remind you of 1984? Eastasia, Westasia?
The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) wants an economy that will "lead the world" by 2015. To these ends, the group has commissioned a study on the feasibility of wrapping some of the world's most populated nations into a "freed trade zone" bloc not dissimilar to the European Union, according to published reports.
The Asian leaders, who are meeting in Thailand, said the association would tie together the ASEAN nations and regional partners "China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand," the BBC reported.

Originally posted by kick FlipUnfortunately, as with all of the really important stuff, we, the useless eaters, will not get a say. It will all be done by treaty, that wonderfull invention to circumvent sovreignty.
reply to post by whaaa
For the record i would like to state the people of New Zealand dislike asian's very much and will never agree to anything of the sort.
Not sure about Aussie though.....
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