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Media registration has opened for the 2026 APEC Ministers Responsible for Trade Meeting, as preparations advance for a key ministerial platform to address evolving global trade challenges.
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As governments across the Asia-Pacific tighten oversight of artificial intelligence, confront rising digital piracy and look for new ways to finance innovation, intellectual property (IP) policymakers have moved to place patent, trademark and copyright systems at the center of economic strategy.
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The 2026 APEC Healthy Women, Healthy Economies Research Prize (HWHE) is now open, calling for innovative, evidence-based research that strengthens understanding of how women’s health underpins economic participation across the Asia-Pacific.
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From supply chain resilience to digital investment and sustainability, economies across the Asia-Pacific are using investment policy to recalibrate growth strategies in a more fragmented global economy.
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Economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region is projected at 3.2 percent in 2025, with growth expected to hold at 3.1 percent in 2026, according to the latest APEC Regional Trends Analysis report, even as rising trade restrictions and policy uncertainty weigh on the medium-term outlook.
Growth is expected to slow to 2.9 percent in 2027 as structural constraints, trade fragmentation and geopolitical risks become more constraining.
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Oceans policy across the region is increasingly being treated as an economic resilience issue, as officials overseeing ocean and fisheries policy move to align marine protection, fisheries management and coastal livelihoods with longer-term growth and climate adaptation goals.
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As rapid population aging, slower workforce growth and rising healthcare costs increasingly weigh on productivity, fiscal sustainability and long-term growth prospects across the region, health officials sharpened their focus on health systems as an economic variable.
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APEC economies met in Guangzhou this week to confront a set of digital policy challenges that are increasingly shaping trade, productivity and social outcomes worldwide, from the rapid deployment of artificial intelligence to the expansion of cross-border digital commerce and growing concerns over online safety.
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APEC is launching its 2026 agenda in Guangzhou as officials from the 21 member economies gather from 1 to 10 February for the First Senior Officials’ Meeting and Related Meetings.
China, serving as host economy this year, has set the theme “Building an Asia-Pacific Community to Prosper Together” signaling its commitment to deepen regional integration and accelerate cooperation across the world’s most dynamic economic region.
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Electrification, data-center expansion and shifts in transport are reshaping energy demand across APEC economies, with electricity consumption projected to rise by up to 96 percent by 2060, according to the ninth edition of the APEC Energy Demand and Supply Outlook, launched in Tokyo last week.
The report, updated every three years, projects electricity generation rising from 18,971 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2022 to 32,690 TWh under current policies, reflecting a structural move away from direct fossil fuel use toward electricity across transport, buildings and parts of industry.
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Chinese Taipei has contributed USD 650,000 in voluntary funding to support APEC initiatives aimed at enhancing regional human security, promoting women’s economic empowerment and reinforcing evidence-based policymaking across the Asia-Pacific region.
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Senior officials from APEC economies convened in Shenzhen, a modern southern coastal city of China, to lay the groundwork for the forum’s agenda for next year. China, the host of APEC 2026, introduced its theme, Building an Asia-Pacific Community to Prosper Together.
