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
