“Common Strategy for the Asia-Pacific Region: Regional Arrangement for the
                                                                              Emerging Challenges”
                                                         Presented by Captain Chatupol Chomthongdee, R.T.N.
                                                    Deputy Director of Planning and Projects Division, SSC, NDSI
                                                                          On 23rd October, 2010
                                                                   At the 3rd Xiangshan Forum, Beijing China

Introduction
                                   Unequivocally, ongoing shifts in geopolitical power from West to East make the Asia-
                                   Pacific region more important to the global politics today than ever before. The region is
                                   already an engine of the global economy, and major Asian countries are becoming
                                   global economic and political actors. In this exceptional circumstance, it is also hard to
                                   dispute the view that, at present, almost all of major global actors and the
                                   administration around the world seek to examine their previous policies and
                                   simultaneously need to concentrate and acquire a more active approach to deal
                                   effectively with both challenges and opportunities that lie ahead within the Asia- Pacific
                                   region which inevitably recognizes as one of the most significant and prosperous areas
                                   inherently encompassing a broad spectrum of the strategic value of key geographic
                                   features.