In 2020, in-person interactions were prohibited owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. The international society has shared learning experiences from the pandemic and effective countermeasures against COVID-19 which have allowed governments to shift their policy priorities from infection control to economic revival. In 2022, various governments in East Asia gradually relaxed their domestic and international travel regulations as a result of the pandemic subsiding. This gradual and careful remobilisation will help reconnect people and companies. However, such an economic stimulus will not necessarily achieve the goal of rebuilding and strengthening pre-COVID-19 relationships among countries owing to radical changes in the economic and political environments surrounding East Asia and behavioural changes in people. Amid these emerging conditions, the ASEAN and East Asian countries will also have to cope with policy issues that were unsolved since the pre-COVID-19 period, such as the deepening of regional integration, digital transformation, circular economy, population ageing, and inclusive growth. How can governments adjust their policies to the new policy environments while combatting COVID-19? What will be the role of ASEAN and East Asian integration in addressing these unsolved mid-to-long-term problems and emerging immediate challenges? The 2022 RIN Online Workshop Series ‘Reconnect East Asia towards building a dynamic, sustainable, inclusive, resilient, and peaceful East Asia’ focuses on these questions.
Business continuity and disaster recovery strategies (BCRS) as resilience tools after cyberattacks in entrepreneurship ecosystems. How ready is the peaceful East Asia?
Speaker: Kartini Rahman (Centre for Strategic and Policy Studies (CSPS), Brunei)
Emerging issues of population ageing affecting ASEAN and East Asian nation states in the post Covid-19 era
