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Last spring initiated by the Foreign Affairs Committee hearings on the Asian Strategy and according to the Riigikogu Procedure Act, decided to draw up a report on their basis. Its aim was to map the Estonian national interests and possible activities in the coming years to ensure its position ke in the international competition for the Asia-Pacific region, the rise of dawn.
Decided to report the completion of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Riigikogu ke plenary session to present the results, which is why we are here today algatasimegi of crucial national debate on the issue. I would point out that according to the law organizes the Foreign Affairs ke Committee in February of each year, the Estonian foreign general discussion. As you remember, we had such a session last year on 21 February. However, the Commission considers that the Parliament House might from time to time to focus on some of the deeper discussion on the topic of foreign policy. It is expected that today's session for starting a great tradition.
Foreign Affairs Committee of the Riigikogu ke has consistently paid attention to developments in Asia since at least the last three membership period. In 2006 and 2009, was visited by the delegation of China and the composition of the X at the end of the Tallinn University working group commissioned a separate analysis ke of China's future development.
At the beginning of this composition of the Riigikogu Foreign Affairs has decided to undertake a more detailed analysis of developments in Asia proactively until 2025, our goal was to examine the possible different angles development trends in Asia, Africa to listen to the public, private and third sector views on this topic and find out what the government should limited resources to do that Estonia would be better prepared to respond quickly and make use of the world's political ke and economic importance of the entire region, driven opportunities.
Here we could ask why the Foreign Affairs ke Committee in its work devoted so much attention to Asia? First, and most important reason is drawing the attention of the world to major changes in the Estonian and foreign policy and foreign economic modernization ke in relation to the need for these changes.
Second, it provides just a more systematic and multidisciplinary analysis to better map out priority activities ke primarily at the national level. Similar strategies have been written in recent years, a number of our partners in Europe, including, for example, our northern neighbor ke Finland.
Today, it is obvious that the Euro-Atlantic ke region of the world jõukese is expanding elsewhere. Has been discussed as much as the possibility that the impact of global developments in the 21st century may turn into a new center for the Asia-Pacific region. It is believed that the British and American Century is forthcoming Asian century.
Mid-19th century ke the British Empire dominated the world, with a metropolitan produced more than a third of the world's gross domestic product. ke Great Britain alone, energy ke consumption was five times higher than the United States, and 155 times higher than in Russia. Britons visited more than a fifth of world trade.
Civil War in the mess quickly got over the United States soared in the 1880s the world's leading economies and has remained in that position until today. Aside from the Second World War a further positive impact on the economic positions of the United States in the world, then the whole century, their share of the world economy ke has been sustained for more than a quarter.
In 1978, China started avanemispoliitika, Soviet Union, India started waking up in the early 1990s, the Gulf countries and the rise of a number of other events have accelerated the global processes that have significantly reduced the United States and the Western world relative influence in the world. International Monetary Fund estimates that in 2016 China will overtake the United States and become the world's largest economy.
In fact, the Asian century, ke began to speak in the second half of the 1980s. One impetus for this event was the emergence of the term, among other things, held in Beijing in 1988, the then Chinese and Indian leaders - Deng Xiaoping and Rajiv Gandhi meeting. If China had by then already had a moment ke in almost a decade, and a new openness upward trend, then India will start its path into the international economy.
Especially in China, but also India rapid rise of the last few decades has been the factor that has forced the whole world are increasingly interested in Asia. Past Successes such as Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and other Asian picture, of course, add to the dynamism and diversity.
If, however, we will briefly ascend higher on the last couple of centuries, is dominated by the western world, you will quickly ke realize that the rise of Asia is not a unique phenomenon. We tend to forget that, for example, the Chinese state has existed for a run of more than two thousand ke years, and felt a part of the human race influenced the development of the discoveries in Asia.
Economic historian Angus Maddison according to studies ke of Asia