Is Kevin Rudd’s proposed scheme to unite our region in a European Union-style Asian economic community any more credible than the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum? In this, the first of two articles, Colin Teese, a former senior trade negotiator, discusses where the Rudd Plan is likely to lead us.As a policy developer, the Prime Minister Mr Kevin Rudd seems to be gaining a reputation as something of an unguided missile.His recent promised $35 million handout to Toyota to develop th…
