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Old Friends - New Realities: California's Economic Relationship With Hong Kong And Taiwan And Trade Policy Report, California Commission For Economic Development, Advisory Council On Asia

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Last year the Advisory Council on Asia (ACA) was asked by Lieutenant Governor Leo McCarthy to conduct a fact-finding mission to Asia. We believed, as he did, that the pace of economic and political developments in the region was reshaping Asia so quickly and so profoundly that the attention was warranted. As members of California's Asian community and business people involved with Pacific Rim commerce, we believed we could make a major contribution in assessing these developments and their importance to California.

We had not anticipated, however, that our mission would provide the impetus for a series of reports documenting …