Just a single sentence among the many tens of thousands uttered in Hanoi this past week by 14,000 delegates and their retinues sums up the futility of APEC, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum: "One of the major outcomes that is anticipated from the leaders' meeting will be the Hanoi Action Plan to implement the Busan roadmap to achieve the Bogor goals," said Vietnam's Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, Le Cong Phung, at the start of the week-long jamboree. Busan was the South Koreans' turn at staging the event last year. Bogor was Indonesia's contribution back in 1994.
APEC: Sanitizing PR and Bureaucratic Doublespeak
