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East Asia Summit

The East Asia Summit (EAS) is a regional forum held annually by leaders of, initially, 16 countries in the East Asian, Southeast Asian, South Asian and Oceanian regions, based on the ASEAN Plus Six mechanism. Membership expanded to 18 countries including Russia and the United States at the Sixth EAS in 2011. Since its establishment, ASEAN has held the central role and leadership in the forum. EAS meetings are held after the annual ASEAN leaders' meetings, and plays an important role in the regional architecture of Asia-Pacific. The first summit was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 14 December 2005.[1][2]

East Asia Summit (en)
  • 东亚峰会 (zh)
  • 東アジアサミット (ja)
  • 동아시아 정상회의 (ko)
  • Саммит стран Восточной Азии (ru)
  • Konferensi Tingkat Tinggi Asia Timur (id)
  • Sidang Kemuncak Asia Timur (ms)
  • Pulong-Panguluhan ng Silangang Asya (fil)
  • အရှေ့အာရှထိပ်သီးအစည်းအဝေး (my)
  • การประชุมสุดยอดเอเชียตะวันออก (th)
  • ກອງປະຊຸມສຸດຍອດອາຊີຕາເວັນອອກ (lo)
  • កិច្ចប្រជុំអាស៊ីបូព៌ា (kh)
  • Hội nghị cấp cao Đông Á (vi)
  • கிழக்கு ஆசியா உச்சி மாநாடு (ta)
  • पूर्व एशिया शिखर सम्मेलन (hi)
Map of EAS members and candidates
  Original Members
  Members from the 6th EAS
  Candidates

 Australia

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

 Brunei

Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah

 Cambodia

Prime Minister Hun Manet

 China

Premier Li Qiang

 India

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

 Indonesia

President Joko Widodo

 Japan

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida

 Laos

Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone

 Malaysia

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim

 Myanmar

Prime Minister Min Aung Hlaing

 New Zealand

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon

 Philippines

President Bongbong Marcos

 Russia

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin

 Singapore

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong

 South Korea

President Yoon Suk Yeol

 Thailand

Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin

 United States

President Joe Biden

 Vietnam

Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính
A session of the 10th East Asia Summit, 2015.

History edit

History prior to the first East Asia Summit edit

The concept of an East Asia Grouping has significant history going back to an idea first promoted in 1991 by then Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.

The final report in 2002 of the East Asian Study Group, established by the ASEAN Plus Three countries, was based on an EAS involving ASEAN Plus Three, therefore not involving Australia, New Zealand, or India.[3] The EAS as proposed was to be an ASEAN-led development, with the summit to be linked to ASEAN summit meetings. However, the issue was to which countries beyond those in ASEAN the EAS was to be extended.

The decision to hold the EAS was reached during the 2004 ASEAN Plus Three summit and the initial 16 members determined at the ASEAN Plus Three Ministerial Meeting held in Laos at the end of July 2005.[4]

Credit for advancing the forum during the 2004 ASEAN Plus Three summit has been attributed to Malaysia.[5]

Annual summits edit

# Date Country Host Host leader Note
1st 14 December 2005   Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the summit as guest.
2nd 15 January 2007   Philippines Mandaue President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Rescheduled from 13 December 2006.
Cebu Declaration on East Asian Energy Security
3rd 21 November 2007   Singapore Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong Singapore Declaration on Climate Change, Energy and the Environment[6]
Agreed to establish Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia
4th 25 October 2009   Thailand Cha-am & Hua Hin Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva Thailand was initially to host the Summit. It was announced in late October 2008 that the Summit would be shifted from Bangkok to Chiang Mai due to concerns about political unrest in Bangkok.[7]
5th 30 October 2010   Vietnam Hanoi President Nguyễn Minh Triết The United States Secretary of State and the Foreign Minister of Russia attended. The United States and Russia to join the Summit at the Sixth EAS.
6th 18–19 November 2011   Indonesia Bali President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono The United States and Russia joined the Summit.
7th 19–20 November 2012   Cambodia Phnom Penh Prime Minister Hun Sen The ongoing tensions arising from the territorial disputes in the South China Sea and East China Sea overshadowed the effort to advance the trade and economic arrangements between members of the Summit.[8]
8th 9–10 October 2013   Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah
9th 12–13 November 2014   Myanmar (Burma) Nay Pyi Taw President Thein Sein
10th 21–22 November 2015   Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Prime Minister Najib Razak
11th 6–8 September 2016   Laos Vientiane Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith
12th 13–14 November 2017   Philippines Pasay President Rodrigo Duterte Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attended the summit as a guest.
13th 14–15 November 2018   Singapore Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the event.[9]
14th 4 November 2019   Thailand Bangkok Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha
15th 14 November 2020   Vietnam Hanoi (as Chair's venue) Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc The summit was held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic and hosted by Vietnam, where the summit was initially scheduled to take place.[10] The main venue is Hanoi, where the opening and closing ceremonies took place.
16th 26–27 October 2021   Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan (as Chair's venue) Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah The summit was held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic and hosted by Brunei, where the summit was initially scheduled to take place.
17th 12–13 November 2022   Cambodia Phnom Penh Prime Minister Hun Sen European Union and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation attended the summit as a guest.
18th 6–7 September 2023   Indonesia Jakarta President Joko Widodo United States Vice President Kamala Harris representative to President Biden attended the event.
19th 2024   Laos Vientiane Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone

Early summits edit

Prior to the first meeting there was significant discussion as to which countries should be represented.[11] At the time there were difficulties in the relationship between the "Plus Three" members (i.e. Japan, China and South Korea) of ASEAN Plus Three,[12] and the perception that India and Australia and to a lesser extent New Zealand were present to balance the growing China power[13] all meant the first meeting's achievements were limited. Russia expressed early interest in EAS membership and attended the first EAS as an observer at the invitation of 2005 EAS host Malaysia.

The next EAS was to be held on 13 December 2006 in Metro Cebu, Philippines. After the confidence building of the inaugural EAS the 2006 EAS will help to define the future role of the EAS, its relationship with ASEAN Plus Three and the involvement of Russia in EAS. However, in the face of Tropical Typhoon Utor the summit was postponed until January 2007.[14] It was rescheduled for 15 January 2007, approximately a month after the original scheduled date.

Internal issues edit

Internal ASEAN issues were significant for the next Summits. The issues of Myanmar (Burma), following the 2007 Burmese anti-government protests, and climate change were expected to be discussed at the Third EAS. Myanmar successfully blocked formal discussion of its internal affairs.[15]

The summit did issue the Singapore Declaration on Climate Change, Energy and the Environment.[6]

The Summit also agreed to the establishment of the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia and to receive the final report on the Comprehensive Economic Partnership for East Asia at the Fourth EAS.[16]

The outcomes are summarised in the Chairman's Statement of the 3rd East Asia Summit Singapore, 21 November 2007. 21 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine

The Fourth EAS was significantly delayed and its location changed a number of times due to internal tensions in Thailand, the host nation. In the lead up to the summit there were several border clashes between Thailand and Cambodia. The summit however is said to be used as an opportunity for discussions on the sidelines between the respective nation's leaders.[17] The summit was cancelled following protesters taking over the summit's venue on the day of the summit.[18] It was rescheduled and held on 25 October 2009. The summit adopted statements on disaster relief and the Nalanda University.

Growth of the Summit edit

After a period of review, the Summit grew from 16 to 18 nations by adding the United States and Russia to the Summit. Initially represented by their Foreign Ministers at the Fifth EAS, the two new members were invited to formally join with the Sixth EAS. Tensions between the members of the Summit continued to impede the members developing a more ambitious program.

Member nations edit

Countries Official Name in English Capital City Leader Position Head of Government Head of State
  Australia Commonwealth of Australia Canberra Prime Minister of Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese Charles III, King of Australia
  Brunei Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace Bandar Seri Begawan Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei
  Cambodia Kingdom of Cambodia Phnom Penh Prime Minister of Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Manet Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia
  China People's Republic of China Beijing Premier of the People's Republic of China Premier Li Qiang Xi Jinping, President of China and CCP General Secretary[19]
  India Republic of India New Delhi Prime Minister of India Prime Minister Narendra Modi Droupadi Murmu, President of India
  Indonesia Republic of Indonesia Jakarta President of Indonesia Joko Widodo, President of Indonesia
  Japan Japan Tokyo Prime Minister of Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida Naruhito, Emperor of Japan
  Laos Lao People's Democratic Republic Vientiane Prime Minister of Laos Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone Thongloun Sisoulith, President of Laos
  Malaysia Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Prime Minister of Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim Abdullah of Pahang, Yang di-Pertuan Agong (Monarch)
  Myanmar Republic of the Union of Myanmar Naypyidaw Prime Minister of Myanmar Prime Minister Min Aung Hlaing Myint Swe, Acting President of Myanmar
  New Zealand New Zealand Wellington Prime Minister of New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon Charles III, King of New Zealand
  Philippines Republic of the Philippines Manila President of the Philippines Bongbong Marcos, President of the Philippines
  Russia Russian Federation Moscow Prime Minister of Russia Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin Vladimir Putin, President of Russia
  Singapore Republic of Singapore Singapore Prime Minister of Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong Tharman Shanmugaratnam, President of Singapore
  South Korea Republic of Korea Seoul President of South Korea Yoon Suk Yeol, President of South Korea
  Thailand Kingdom of Thailand Bangkok Prime Minister of Thailand Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin Vajiralongkorn (Rama X), King of Thailand
  United States United States of America Washington, D.C. President of the United States Joe Biden, President of the United States
  Vietnam Socialist Republic of Vietnam Hanoi Prime Minister of Vietnam Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính Võ Văn Thưởng, President of Vietnam

Current leaders of the East Asia Summit edit

Energy edit

At the Second EAS the EAS members signed the Cebu Declaration on East Asian Energy Security, a declaration on energy security and biofuels, containing a statement for members to prepare non-binding targets.[20]

Trade and the Comprehensive Economic Partnership in East Asia (CEPEA) edit

Trade is an important focus for the summit.

As to trade and regional integration the following was noted in the Chair's report for the Second EAS:

12. We welcomed ASEAN's efforts towards further integration and community building, and reaffirmed our resolve to work closely together in narrowing development gaps in our region. We reiterated our support for ASEAN's role as the driving force for economic integration in this region. To deepen integration, we agreed to launch a Track To study on a Comprehensive Economic Partnership for East Asia (CEPEA) among EAS participants. We tasked the ASEAN Secretariat to prepare a time frame for the study and to invite all our countries to nominate their respective participants in it.

We welcomed Japan's proposal for an Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA).

The reality appears however that movement towards such a relationship is a long way-off. Lee Kuan Yew has compared the relationship between Southeast Asia and India with that of the European Community and Turkey, and has suggested that a free-trade area involving Southeast Asia and India is 30 to 50 years away.[21]

The members of EAS agreed to study the Japanese proposed[22] Comprehensive Economic Partnership in East Asia (CEPEA). The Track Two report on CEPEA is due to be completed in mid-2008[23] and at the Third EAS it was agreed this would be considered at the Fourth EAS.

As noted above the Second EAS welcomed the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). It was subsequently announced that the ERIA would be established in November 2007[24] and confirmed at the Third EAS.

The Declaration of the Fifth Anniversary of the East Asia Summit issued at the Fifth EAS provided the Summit declared:[25]

3. To redouble efforts to move progress and cooperation in the EAS further forward, including in the priority areas and in the promotion of regional integration through supporting the realisation of the ASEAN Community and such initiatives as the ASEAN Plus FTAs and other existing wider regional economic integration efforts including studies on East Asia Free Trade Area (EAFTA) and Comprehensive Economic Partnership in East Asia (CEPEA).

India has launched several Look-East connectivity projects with China and ASEAN nations.

East Asian Community edit

After the EAS was established the issue arose of whether any future East Asia Community would arise from the EAS or ASEAN Plus Three. Prior to the creation of the EAS it appeared that ASEAN Plus Three would take the role of community building in East Asia.[26]

Malaysia felt that it was still the case that the role of the community building fell to ASEAN Plus Three shortly before the second EAS despite "confusion".[27] China apparently agreed whereas Japan and India felt the EAS should be the focus of the East Asian Community.[28]

After the first EAS the feasibility of EAS to have a community building role was questioned with Ong Keng Yong, the secretary-general of ASEAN being quoted as describing the EAS as little more than a "brainstorming forum".[29] Nevertheless, the Chairman’s Press Statement for the Seventh ASEAN Plus Three Foreign Ministers’ Meeting Kuala Lumpur, 26 July 2006 said

25. The Ministers welcomed the convening of the East Asia Summit as a forum for dialogue on broad strategic, political and economic issues of common interest with the aim of promoting peace, stability and economic prosperity in East Asia. In this respect, they recognized that the East Asia Summit could make a significant contribution to the achievement of the long-term goal of establishing an East Asian community.

It appeared that over time following the first EAS the focus was less on whether the EAS has a role in community building to what the role and whether it was secondary to ASEAN Plus Three. By mid-2006 the Chinese news site Xinhua Net suggested the community would arise through a two-phase process with ASEAN Plus Three as the first phase and the EAS as the second phase.[30] The China-India joint declaration of 21 November 2006 linked, at paragraph 43, the EAS with the East Asian Community process.[31]

The concentric circle model of the community process with ASEAN at the centre, ASEAN Plus Three at the next band and the East Asia Summit at the outer band is supported by the Second Joint Statement on East Asia Cooperation Building on the Foundations of ASEAN Plus Three Cooperation which said:

III. Looking Forward to a Decade of Consolidation and Closer Integration (2007–2017)

A. Defining the Objectives and Roles of the ASEAN Plus Three Cooperation in the Emerging Regional Architecture

1. We reaffirmed that the ASEAN Plus Three Process would remain as the main vehicle towards the long-term goal of building an East Asian community, with ASEAN as the driving force.
...

3. We recognised and supported the mutually reinforcing and complementary roles of the ASEAN Plus Three process and such regional fora as EAS, ARF, APEC and ASEM to promote East Asian community building.

4. We reiterated that East Asian integration is an open, transparent, inclusive, and forward-looking process for mutual benefits and support internationally shared values to achieve peace, stability, democracy and prosperity in the region. Guided by the vision for durable peace and shared prosperity in East Asia and beyond, we will stand guided by new economic flows, evolving strategic interactions and the belief to continue to engage all interested countries and organisations towards the realisation of an open regional architecture capable of adapting to changes and new dynamism.

On any view, community building is not a short-term project. However, after the second EAS, the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was confident that the EAS would lead to an East Asia Community.[32] China had also apparently accepted this was the case.[33]

If achieved the Comprehensive Economic Partnership for East Asia (CEPEA) would be a tangible first step in the community building process. The second EAS seems to have increased confidence in CEPEA but is still only a proposal.[34]

It has been suggested that as the EAS consists of an "anti-region" the prospects of it forming a community are less than likely.[35]

Relationship with ASEAN Plus Three edit

The relationship between the EAS on one hand and ASEAN Plus Three on the other is still not clear. As discussed above, some countries are more supportive of the narrower ASEAN Plus Three grouping whereas others support the broader, more inclusive EAS. ASEAN Plus Three, which has been meeting since December 1997[36] has a history, including the Chiang Mai Initiative[37] which appears to have led to the development of the Asian Monetary Unit. This may be significant for those advocating a broader role for EAS in the future.

The tension between the groupings extends to the respective members' intentions towards future Free Trade Agreements with China and South Korea focused on ASEAN Plus Three and Japan on the broader EAS members.[38]

The 1997 Asian financial crisis had demonstrated the need for regional groupings and initiatives. It was during this time ASEAN Plus Three had commenced and it was also during this time that the East Asian caucus was being discussed.

The EAS is just one regional grouping and some members down play its significance, the former Australian Prime Minister John Howard has stated that the EAS was secondary as a regional summit to APEC which has on his view a premier role.[39] Not all members of the EAS, notably India, are members of APEC. However, as the EAS meetings are scheduled with the ASEAN Plus Three meetings (they both follow the annual ASEAN meetings) and all members of ASEAN Plus Three are members of EAS the ability of the two forums to remain relevant given the existence of the other remains in question. China has stated its preference for both EAS and ASEAN Plus Three to exist side by side.[40]

The relationship between APEC, ASEAN Plus Three and the EAS remained unresolved heading into the 2007 APEC meeting.[41] Following the meeting the then Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi described ASEAN Plus Three as the primary vehicle and implied APEC was the lesser of the three.[42] At the same time a Malaysian commentator writing in a Singaporean newspaper described concentric circles for the three with ASEAN Plus Three at the centre and APEC at the outer, also suggested the Nikai Initiative, with its regional OECD like plans, might overtaking the remaining role for APEC.[43]

Countries joining the Summit process edit

Russia edit

Russia participated in the first EAS as an observer at the invitation of 2005 host Malaysia and requested to become a member. Its request to become a future member received support from China and India.[44]

The membership of EAS was to be considered by ASEAN on a case-by-case basis.[45] ASEAN decided to freeze new "membership" of EAS for the second and third summits.[46]

The status of potential future members was discussed in the Chairman's Statement of the 16th ASEAN Summit (9 April 2010)[47] in these terms:

43. We recognized and supported the mutually reinforcing roles of the ASEAN+3 process, the East Asia Summit (EAS), and such regional forums as the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), to promote the East Asian cooperation and dialogue towards the building of a community in East Asia. In this connection, we encouraged Russia and the US to deepen their engagement in an evolving regional architecture, including the possibility of their involvement with the EAS through appropriate modalities, taking into account the Leaders-led, open and inclusive nature of the EAS.

ASEAN formally invited the United States and Russia to join the group from 2011.[48]

United States edit

Japan and India supported inclusion of the United States and Russia prior to their invitation to join the East Asia Summit.[49]

US President Barack Obama declared his country "an Asia Pacific nation" during his first year in office.[50] Subsequently, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attended the Fifth EAS in October 2010 and President Obama attended the Sixth EAS in November 2011.

ASEAN + 8 edit

In April and May 2010 it was discussed that the roles for Russia and the United States may be to create a new grouping "ASEAN + 8" including the East Asia Summit members together with the United States and Russia. ASEAN + 8 may not meet as regularly as the East Asia Summit due to the logistical difficulties in the United States President committing to an annual Asian meeting. Such a meeting could be held every two to three years to coincide with the APEC meeting occurring in Asia.[51]

Potential future members edit

East Timor and Papua New Guinea edit

East Timor is a candidate ASEAN member seeking membership within five years (from 2006) and Papua New Guinea has shown intention to join;[52][53][54] presumably new members of ASEAN would also join the EAS.[55]

Other countries and groupings edit

Over several years, especially shortly the commencement of the summits, other countries have been connected with the EAS.

In 2006, Pakistan and Mongolia were proposed as future members by Malaysia.[56] Mongolia was mentioned again by Vietnam, the then chair, in 2010.[57]

In 2007, Pakistan and Bangladesh were raised by Japan as possible members.[58]

In 2007, the European Union indicated it wishes to have a role as an observer.[59]

In 2008, the Arab League held talks and expressed its desire to have a role as an observer.[60]

In 2017, Sri Lanka and Maldives were proposed to be possible members of East Asia Summit. Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau attended as guest. He had arrived directly from the APEC 2017 summit held in Da Nang, Vietnam.

See also edit

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External links edit

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The East Asia Summit EAS is a regional forum held annually by leaders of initially 16 countries in the East Asian Southeast Asian South Asian and Oceanian regions based on the ASEAN Plus Six mechanism Membership expanded to 18 countries including Russia and the United States at the Sixth EAS in 2011 Since its establishment ASEAN has held the central role and leadership in the forum EAS meetings are held after the annual ASEAN leaders meetings and plays an important role in the regional architecture of Asia Pacific The first summit was held in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia on 14 December 2005 1 2 East Asia Summit en 东亚峰会 zh 東アジアサミット ja 동아시아 정상회의 ko Sammit stran Vostochnoj Azii ru Konferensi Tingkat Tinggi Asia Timur id Sidang Kemuncak Asia Timur ms Pulong Panguluhan ng Silangang Asya fil အရ အ ရ ထ ပ သ အစည အဝ my karprachumsudyxdexechiytawnxxk th ກອງປະຊ ມສ ດຍອດອາຊ ຕາເວ ນອອກ lo ក ច ចប រជ អ ស ប ព kh Hội nghị cấp cao Đong A vi க ழக க ஆச ய உச ச ம ந ட ta प र व एश य श खर सम म लन hi Map of EAS members and candidates Original Members Members from the 6th EAS Candidates Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Manet China Premier Li Qiang India Prime Minister Narendra Modi Indonesia President Joko Widodo Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida Laos Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim Myanmar Prime Minister Min Aung Hlaing New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon Philippines President Bongbong Marcos Russia Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol Thailand Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin United States President Joe Biden Vietnam Prime Minister Phạm Minh ChinhA session of the 10th East Asia Summit 2015 Contents 1 History 1 1 History prior to the first East Asia Summit 1 2 Annual summits 1 3 Early summits 1 4 Internal issues 1 5 Growth of the Summit 2 Member nations 2 1 Current leaders of the East Asia Summit 3 Energy 4 Trade and the Comprehensive Economic Partnership in East Asia CEPEA 5 East Asian Community 6 Relationship with ASEAN Plus Three 7 Countries joining the Summit process 7 1 Russia 7 2 United States 7 3 ASEAN 8 8 Potential future members 8 1 East Timor and Papua New Guinea 8 2 Other countries and groupings 9 See also 10 References 11 External linksHistory editHistory prior to the first East Asia Summit edit The concept of an East Asia Grouping has significant history going back to an idea first promoted in 1991 by then Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad The final report in 2002 of the East Asian Study Group established by the ASEAN Plus Three countries was based on an EAS involving ASEAN Plus Three therefore not involving Australia New Zealand or India 3 The EAS as proposed was to be an ASEAN led development with the summit to be linked to ASEAN summit meetings However the issue was to which countries beyond those in ASEAN the EAS was to be extended The decision to hold the EAS was reached during the 2004 ASEAN Plus Three summit and the initial 16 members determined at the ASEAN Plus Three Ministerial Meeting held in Laos at the end of July 2005 4 Credit for advancing the forum during the 2004 ASEAN Plus Three summit has been attributed to Malaysia 5 Annual summits edit Date Country Host Host leader Note1st 14 December 2005 nbsp Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the summit as guest 2nd 15 January 2007 nbsp Philippines Mandaue President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Rescheduled from 13 December 2006 Cebu Declaration on East Asian Energy Security3rd 21 November 2007 nbsp Singapore Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong Singapore Declaration on Climate Change Energy and the Environment 6 Agreed to establish Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia4th 25 October 2009 nbsp Thailand Cha am amp Hua Hin Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva Thailand was initially to host the Summit It was announced in late October 2008 that the Summit would be shifted from Bangkok to Chiang Mai due to concerns about political unrest in Bangkok 7 5th 30 October 2010 nbsp Vietnam Hanoi President Nguyễn Minh Triết The United States Secretary of State and the Foreign Minister of Russia attended The United States and Russia to join the Summit at the Sixth EAS 6th 18 19 November 2011 nbsp Indonesia Bali President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono The United States and Russia joined the Summit 7th 19 20 November 2012 nbsp Cambodia Phnom Penh Prime Minister Hun Sen The ongoing tensions arising from the territorial disputes in the South China Sea and East China Sea overshadowed the effort to advance the trade and economic arrangements between members of the Summit 8 8th 9 10 October 2013 nbsp Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah9th 12 13 November 2014 nbsp Myanmar Burma Nay Pyi Taw President Thein Sein10th 21 22 November 2015 nbsp Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Prime Minister Najib Razak11th 6 8 September 2016 nbsp Laos Vientiane Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith12th 13 14 November 2017 nbsp Philippines Pasay President Rodrigo Duterte Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attended the summit as a guest 13th 14 15 November 2018 nbsp Singapore Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the event 9 14th 4 November 2019 nbsp Thailand Bangkok Prime Minister Prayut Chan o cha15th 14 November 2020 nbsp Vietnam Hanoi as Chair s venue Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuan Phuc The summit was held online due to the COVID 19 pandemic and hosted by Vietnam where the summit was initially scheduled to take place 10 The main venue is Hanoi where the opening and closing ceremonies took place 16th 26 27 October 2021 nbsp Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan as Chair s venue Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah The summit was held online due to the COVID 19 pandemic and hosted by Brunei where the summit was initially scheduled to take place 17th 12 13 November 2022 nbsp Cambodia Phnom Penh Prime Minister Hun Sen European Union and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation attended the summit as a guest 18th 6 7 September 2023 nbsp Indonesia Jakarta President Joko Widodo United States Vice President Kamala Harris representative to President Biden attended the event 19th 2024 nbsp Laos Vientiane Prime Minister Sonexay SiphandoneEarly summits edit Main articles First East Asia Summit and Second East Asia Summit Prior to the first meeting there was significant discussion as to which countries should be represented 11 At the time there were difficulties in the relationship between the Plus Three members i e Japan China and South Korea of ASEAN Plus Three 12 and the perception that India and Australia and to a lesser extent New Zealand were present to balance the growing China power 13 all meant the first meeting s achievements were limited Russia expressed early interest in EAS membership and attended the first EAS as an observer at the invitation of 2005 EAS host Malaysia The next EAS was to be held on 13 December 2006 in Metro Cebu Philippines After the confidence building of the inaugural EAS the 2006 EAS will help to define the future role of the EAS its relationship with ASEAN Plus Three and the involvement of Russia in EAS However in the face of Tropical Typhoon Utor the summit was postponed until January 2007 14 It was rescheduled for 15 January 2007 approximately a month after the original scheduled date Internal issues edit Main articles Third East Asia Summit and Fourth East Asia Summit Internal ASEAN issues were significant for the next Summits The issues of Myanmar Burma following the 2007 Burmese anti government protests and climate change were expected to be discussed at the Third EAS Myanmar successfully blocked formal discussion of its internal affairs 15 The summit did issue the Singapore Declaration on Climate Change Energy and the Environment 6 The Summit also agreed to the establishment of the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia and to receive the final report on the Comprehensive Economic Partnership for East Asia at the Fourth EAS 16 The outcomes are summarised in the Chairman s Statement of the 3rd East Asia Summit Singapore 21 November 2007 Archived 21 May 2013 at the Wayback MachineThe Fourth EAS was significantly delayed and its location changed a number of times due to internal tensions in Thailand the host nation In the lead up to the summit there were several border clashes between Thailand and Cambodia The summit however is said to be used as an opportunity for discussions on the sidelines between the respective nation s leaders 17 The summit was cancelled following protesters taking over the summit s venue on the day of the summit 18 It was rescheduled and held on 25 October 2009 The summit adopted statements on disaster relief and the Nalanda University Growth of the Summit edit Main articles Fifth East Asia Summit Sixth East Asia Summit and Seventh East Asia Summit After a period of review the Summit grew from 16 to 18 nations by adding the United States and Russia to the Summit Initially represented by their Foreign Ministers at the Fifth EAS the two new members were invited to formally join with the Sixth EAS Tensions between the members of the Summit continued to impede the members developing a more ambitious program Member nations editCountries Official Name in English Capital City Leader Position Head of Government Head of State nbsp Australia Commonwealth of Australia Canberra Prime Minister of Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese Charles III King of Australia nbsp Brunei Nation of Brunei the Abode of Peace Bandar Seri Begawan Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah Sultan of Brunei nbsp Cambodia Kingdom of Cambodia Phnom Penh Prime Minister of Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Manet Norodom Sihamoni King of Cambodia nbsp China People s Republic of China Beijing Premier of the People s Republic of China Premier Li Qiang Xi Jinping President of China and CCP General Secretary 19 nbsp India Republic of India New Delhi Prime Minister of India Prime Minister Narendra Modi Droupadi Murmu President of India nbsp Indonesia Republic of Indonesia Jakarta President of Indonesia Joko Widodo President of Indonesia nbsp Japan Japan Tokyo Prime Minister of Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida Naruhito Emperor of Japan nbsp Laos Lao People s Democratic Republic Vientiane Prime Minister of Laos Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone Thongloun Sisoulith President of Laos nbsp Malaysia Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Prime Minister of Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim Abdullah of Pahang Yang di Pertuan Agong Monarch nbsp Myanmar Republic of the Union of Myanmar Naypyidaw Prime Minister of Myanmar Prime Minister Min Aung Hlaing Myint Swe Acting President of Myanmar nbsp New Zealand New Zealand Wellington Prime Minister of New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon Charles III King of New Zealand nbsp Philippines Republic of the Philippines Manila President of the Philippines Bongbong Marcos President of the Philippines nbsp Russia Russian Federation Moscow Prime Minister of Russia Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin Vladimir Putin President of Russia nbsp Singapore Republic of Singapore Singapore Prime Minister of Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong Tharman Shanmugaratnam President of Singapore nbsp South Korea Republic of Korea Seoul President of South Korea Yoon Suk Yeol President of South Korea nbsp Thailand Kingdom of Thailand Bangkok Prime Minister of Thailand Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin Vajiralongkorn Rama X King of Thailand nbsp United States United States of America Washington D C President of the United States Joe Biden President of the United States nbsp Vietnam Socialist Republic of Vietnam Hanoi Prime Minister of Vietnam Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chinh Vo Văn Thưởng President of VietnamCurrent leaders of the East Asia Summit edit nbsp nbsp Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese nbsp nbsp Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah nbsp nbsp Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Manet nbsp nbsp ChinaPremier Li Qiang nbsp nbsp IndiaPrime Minister Narendra Modi nbsp nbsp IndonesiaPresident Joko Widodo nbsp nbsp JapanPrime Minister Fumio Kishida nbsp nbsp LaosPrime Minister Sonexay Siphandone nbsp nbsp MalaysiaPrime Minister Anwar Ibrahim nbsp nbsp MyanmarPrime Minister Min Aung Hlaing nbsp nbsp New ZealandPrime Minister Christopher Luxon nbsp nbsp PhilippinesPresident Bongbong Marcos nbsp nbsp RussiaPrime Minister Mikhail Mishustin nbsp nbsp SingaporePrime Minister Lee Hsien Loong nbsp nbsp South KoreaPresident Yoon Suk Yeol nbsp nbsp ThailandPrime Minister Srettha Thavisin nbsp nbsp United StatesPresident Joe Biden nbsp nbsp VietnamPrime Minister Phạm Minh ChinhEnergy editAt the Second EAS the EAS members signed the Cebu Declaration on East Asian Energy Security a declaration on energy security and biofuels containing a statement for members to prepare non binding targets 20 Trade and the Comprehensive Economic Partnership in East Asia CEPEA editTrade is an important focus for the summit As to trade and regional integration the following was noted in the Chair s report for the Second EAS 12 We welcomed ASEAN s efforts towards further integration and community building and reaffirmed our resolve to work closely together in narrowing development gaps in our region We reiterated our support for ASEAN s role as the driving force for economic integration in this region To deepen integration we agreed to launch a Track To study on a Comprehensive Economic Partnership for East Asia CEPEA among EAS participants We tasked the ASEAN Secretariat to prepare a time frame for the study and to invite all our countries to nominate their respective participants in it We welcomed Japan s proposal for an Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia ERIA The reality appears however that movement towards such a relationship is a long way off Lee Kuan Yew has compared the relationship between Southeast Asia and India with that of the European Community and Turkey and has suggested that a free trade area involving Southeast Asia and India is 30 to 50 years away 21 The members of EAS agreed to study the Japanese proposed 22 Comprehensive Economic Partnership in East Asia CEPEA The Track Two report on CEPEA is due to be completed in mid 2008 23 and at the Third EAS it was agreed this would be considered at the Fourth EAS As noted above the Second EAS welcomed the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia ERIA It was subsequently announced that the ERIA would be established in November 2007 24 and confirmed at the Third EAS The Declaration of the Fifth Anniversary of the East Asia Summit issued at the Fifth EAS provided the Summit declared 25 3 To redouble efforts to move progress and cooperation in the EAS further forward including in the priority areas and in the promotion of regional integration through supporting the realisation of the ASEAN Community and such initiatives as the ASEAN Plus FTAs and other existing wider regional economic integration efforts including studies on East Asia Free Trade Area EAFTA and Comprehensive Economic Partnership in East Asia CEPEA India has launched several Look East connectivity projects with China and ASEAN nations East Asian Community editMain article East Asian Community After the EAS was established the issue arose of whether any future East Asia Community would arise from the EAS or ASEAN Plus Three Prior to the creation of the EAS it appeared that ASEAN Plus Three would take the role of community building in East Asia 26 Malaysia felt that it was still the case that the role of the community building fell to ASEAN Plus Three shortly before the second EAS despite confusion 27 China apparently agreed whereas Japan and India felt the EAS should be the focus of the East Asian Community 28 After the first EAS the feasibility of EAS to have a community building role was questioned with Ong Keng Yong the secretary general of ASEAN being quoted as describing the EAS as little more than a brainstorming forum 29 Nevertheless the Chairman s Press Statement for the Seventh ASEAN Plus Three Foreign Ministers Meeting Kuala Lumpur 26 July 2006 said 25 The Ministers welcomed the convening of the East Asia Summit as a forum for dialogue on broad strategic political and economic issues of common interest with the aim of promoting peace stability and economic prosperity in East Asia In this respect they recognized that the East Asia Summit could make a significant contribution to the achievement of the long term goal of establishing an East Asian community It appeared that over time following the first EAS the focus was less on whether the EAS has a role in community building to what the role and whether it was secondary to ASEAN Plus Three By mid 2006 the Chinese news site Xinhua Net suggested the community would arise through a two phase process with ASEAN Plus Three as the first phase and the EAS as the second phase 30 The China India joint declaration of 21 November 2006 linked at paragraph 43 the EAS with the East Asian Community process 31 The concentric circle model of the community process with ASEAN at the centre ASEAN Plus Three at the next band and the East Asia Summit at the outer band is supported by the Second Joint Statement on East Asia Cooperation Building on the Foundations of ASEAN Plus Three Cooperation which said III Looking Forward to a Decade of Consolidation and Closer Integration 2007 2017 A Defining the Objectives and Roles of the ASEAN Plus Three Cooperation in the Emerging Regional Architecture 1 We reaffirmed that the ASEAN Plus Three Process would remain as the main vehicle towards the long term goal of building an East Asian community with ASEAN as the driving force 3 We recognised and supported the mutually reinforcing and complementary roles of the ASEAN Plus Three process and such regional fora as EAS ARF APEC and ASEM to promote East Asian community building 4 We reiterated that East Asian integration is an open transparent inclusive and forward looking process for mutual benefits and support internationally shared values to achieve peace stability democracy and prosperity in the region Guided by the vision for durable peace and shared prosperity in East Asia and beyond we will stand guided by new economic flows evolving strategic interactions and the belief to continue to engage all interested countries and organisations towards the realisation of an open regional architecture capable of adapting to changes and new dynamism On any view community building is not a short term project However after the second EAS the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was confident that the EAS would lead to an East Asia Community 32 China had also apparently accepted this was the case 33 If achieved the Comprehensive Economic Partnership for East Asia CEPEA would be a tangible first step in the community building process The second EAS seems to have increased confidence in CEPEA but is still only a proposal 34 It has been suggested that as the EAS consists of an anti region the prospects of it forming a community are less than likely 35 Relationship with ASEAN Plus Three editThe relationship between the EAS on one hand and ASEAN Plus Three on the other is still not clear As discussed above some countries are more supportive of the narrower ASEAN Plus Three grouping whereas others support the broader more inclusive EAS ASEAN Plus Three which has been meeting since December 1997 36 has a history including the Chiang Mai Initiative 37 which appears to have led to the development of the Asian Monetary Unit This may be significant for those advocating a broader role for EAS in the future The tension between the groupings extends to the respective members intentions towards future Free Trade Agreements with China and South Korea focused on ASEAN Plus Three and Japan on the broader EAS members 38 The 1997 Asian financial crisis had demonstrated the need for regional groupings and initiatives It was during this time ASEAN Plus Three had commenced and it was also during this time that the East Asian caucus was being discussed The EAS is just one regional grouping and some members down play its significance the former Australian Prime Minister John Howard has stated that the EAS was secondary as a regional summit to APEC which has on his view a premier role 39 Not all members of the EAS notably India are members of APEC However as the EAS meetings are scheduled with the ASEAN Plus Three meetings they both follow the annual ASEAN meetings and all members of ASEAN Plus Three are members of EAS the ability of the two forums to remain relevant given the existence of the other remains in question China has stated its preference for both EAS and ASEAN Plus Three to exist side by side 40 The relationship between APEC ASEAN Plus Three and the EAS remained unresolved heading into the 2007 APEC meeting 41 Following the meeting the then Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi described ASEAN Plus Three as the primary vehicle and implied APEC was the lesser of the three 42 At the same time a Malaysian commentator writing in a Singaporean newspaper described concentric circles for the three with ASEAN Plus Three at the centre and APEC at the outer also suggested the Nikai Initiative with its regional OECD like plans might overtaking the remaining role for APEC 43 Countries joining the Summit process editRussia edit Russia participated in the first EAS as an observer at the invitation of 2005 host Malaysia and requested to become a member Its request to become a future member received support from China and India 44 The membership of EAS was to be considered by ASEAN on a case by case basis 45 ASEAN decided to freeze new membership of EAS for the second and third summits 46 The status of potential future members was discussed in the Chairman s Statement of the 16th ASEAN Summit 9 April 2010 47 in these terms 43 We recognized and supported the mutually reinforcing roles of the ASEAN 3 process the East Asia Summit EAS and such regional forums as the ASEAN Regional Forum ARF to promote the East Asian cooperation and dialogue towards the building of a community in East Asia In this connection we encouraged Russia and the US to deepen their engagement in an evolving regional architecture including the possibility of their involvement with the EAS through appropriate modalities taking into account the Leaders led open and inclusive nature of the EAS ASEAN formally invited the United States and Russia to join the group from 2011 48 United States edit Japan and India supported inclusion of the United States and Russia prior to their invitation to join the East Asia Summit 49 US President Barack Obama declared his country an Asia Pacific nation during his first year in office 50 Subsequently US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attended the Fifth EAS in October 2010 and President Obama attended the Sixth EAS in November 2011 ASEAN 8 edit In April and May 2010 it was discussed that the roles for Russia and the United States may be to create a new grouping ASEAN 8 including the East Asia Summit members together with the United States and Russia ASEAN 8 may not meet as regularly as the East Asia Summit due to the logistical difficulties in the United States President committing to an annual Asian meeting Such a meeting could be held every two to three years to coincide with the APEC meeting occurring in Asia 51 Potential future members editEast Timor and Papua New Guinea edit East Timor is a candidate ASEAN member seeking membership within five years from 2006 and Papua New Guinea has shown intention to join 52 53 54 presumably new members of ASEAN would also join the EAS 55 Other countries and groupings edit Over several years especially shortly the commencement of the summits other countries have been connected with the EAS In 2006 Pakistan and Mongolia were proposed as future members by Malaysia 56 Mongolia was mentioned again by Vietnam the then chair in 2010 57 In 2007 Pakistan and Bangladesh were raised by Japan as possible members 58 In 2007 the European Union indicated it wishes to have a role as an observer 59 In 2008 the Arab League held talks and expressed its desire to have a role as an observer 60 In 2017 Sri Lanka and Maldives were proposed to be possible members of East Asia Summit Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau attended as guest He had arrived directly from the APEC 2017 summit held in Da Nang Vietnam See also editComprehensive Economic Partnership for East Asia Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Greater East Asia Co Prosperity Sphere unrelated concept in the mid 20th century Asian Monetary Unit ASEAN ASEAN Free Trade Area The FTA arrangements between the 10 members of ASEAN ASEAN Summit held jointly with the EASReferences edit Places of Interest Archives About EAS ASEAN India mea gov in Report of the East Asian Study Group PDF aseansec org Archived PDF from the 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