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Our Pacific Dream is to translate our strongest values into an
unprecedented security, economic, and social cooperation. We can break
new ground in how we keep countries safe, help economies to mature,
create new jobs and embrace partnerships for the future. And we can do
it while empowering people to make these choices for themselves. We can
turn our potential and our promise into widespread prosperity and
opportunity, and in doing so, we can pass the test by which every
generation is judged.
Now I’m not speaking about a static set of commandments. I’m talking
about a mutual recognition that we are all in this together, otagai-sama
– (laughter) – and a conversation that begins with the realization that
cooperation can benefit us all. It is increasingly clear that what
happens around the Pacific matters around the rest of the world now more
than ever before. After all, this region is home to both enormous
opportunities and enormous challenges at the same time, and how we
handle them together will be felt for a long time everywhere in the
world.
So to make our shared vision a reality for the region and to ensure
that Asia contributes to global peace and prosperity, together I submit
to you that we need to organize ourselves around four principles: strong
growth, fair growth, smart growth, and just growth. Let me talk about
that for a moment.
