Asia in transition: Cooperation, free trade is the key trend

At a plenary session:  Asia is in the transition. Experts, businesses and speakers exchanged many issues related to Asia's transformation process, such as: keeping pace with technology trends, growth drivers, and cooperation between Asian countries, between Asia and other regions of the world, innovation, Industry 4.0, protectionism or free trade, shaping education and training...

Overview of the plenary session.

Experts said that in the coming time, Asia needed to embrace rapid adaptation to technological breakthroughs and innovation. So-Yuong Kang, Founder and CEO of Gnowbe (Singapore) said: Countries need to have innovations in education and training, there should be breakthrough differences in education. In this same view, Rita Sim, CEO, CENSE Media (Malaysia) said that we talked about artificial intelligence, Industry 4.0, 5G network ... but education was only 2.0, it was completely not stable, so we must invest in education ...

A question was posed, what would Asia look like in the next 10 years?. All speakers agreed: Openness, sustainability, skills, cooperation. Although protectionism is growing, there will be mechanisms to control and repel these policies; and free trade will remain the mainstream of Asia in the future.

Reported by T.Dũng-Tiểu My - Translated by Ngoc Huynh