{"id":74957,"date":"2025-10-30T08:57:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T23:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/30\/apec-asia-pacific-economic-cooperation-explained"},"modified":"2025-10-30T08:57:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T23:57:56","slug":"what-is-apec-explained-in-30-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74957","title":{"rendered":"What is Apec &#8211; explained in 30 seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation club has 21 members that represent more than 50% of global GDP and are home to about 2.7 billion people<\/p>\n<p>The idea of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group was firstly publicly broached during a speech in Seoul, South Korea, on 31 January 1989 by Bob Hawke, Australia\u2019s prime minister of the time. Ten months later, 12 Asia-Pacific economies met in Canberra to establish Apec.<\/p>\n<p>The grouping now has 21 members that represent more than 50% of global GDP and are home to about 2.7 billion people, or 40% of the world\u2019s population.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/30\/apec-asia-pacific-economic-cooperation-explained\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation club has 21 members that represent more than 50% of global GDP and are home to about 2.7 billion peopleThe idea of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group was firstly publicly broached during a speech in Seoul,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1192,41,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apec-summit","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74958,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74957\/revisions\/74958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}