so i've been talking with the canopus
marketing team as of late and they've
been thinking we should probably be
reaching out to newer demographics
you know like the hip young demographics
every day we should be reaching out to
them
anyway let's talk about the
multinational political and economic
unions of asia
a couple months ago i set out to explore
the multinational unions of the world
it was a popular video that's mandated
to follow up because of the sheer number
of multinational unions i could have
talked about
but it was also a bit hard to choose
which unions to talk about
so i thought i'd put a little spin on
the idea and instead start by going
region by region
starting off in asia so you've heard of
the european union you've learned of the
african union
you've assumed a north american union
would basically be a future union
between the us and canada
you've heard of america soren the indian
community in south america
sure and you've probably completely
forgot about oceania
but what about an asian union well
asia's too big and diverse for that
right
i mean not only does it contain more
than half the human population
stretching from syria to siberia to
singapore to sri lanka to
saudi arabia but it's also politically
varied
some countries are liberal democracies
some are a bit more authoritarian
than that some are somewhere in between
one is actually in the european union
and some
i literally don't even know anymore asia
does however have a bunch of smaller
regional unions
nearly less to hear on this flowchart
from wikipedia which i will be using for
this video
so i guess this is kind of a preview of
how the rest of this video will look
so just take a good look here real quick
and all right that's enough let's begin
with asean the association of southeast
asian nations
asean was founded with the bangkok
declaration in 1967
as the association of southeast asia or
asa
later expanding to its current list of
10 full members and two observers
now covering the whole of southeast asia
now i could talk about them in this
video
or i could focus their time on other
unions and instead redirect those of you
still curious about asean to the other
videos i made talking about asean
including a whole video i made just
about asean which i would much more
recommend if you want to learn
specifically about asean
moving west to south asia the south
asian association for regional
cooperation
or sarg consists of afghanistan
bangladesh bhutan the maldives nepal
sri lanka and get this
india and pakistan the idea for
something like this
was conceived as far back as the late
1940s
but was finally put into action in 1985
in taka
having been largely pushed for by
bangladesh and the demand for such an
organization emphasized in some ways by
the soviet afghan war
from its headquarters in kathmandu nepal
the swarc
aims to develop economic and regional
integration having launched the south
asian free trade area or
safta in 2006 and also having
established relations with other nations
including the european union as a whole
within the same neighborhood as the
previous two
the mgc or mikanganga cooperation
comprises of india
myanmar thailand cambodia lao and
vietnam
founded in 2000 in vien chen lao the mgc
emphasizes cooperation regarding tourism
culture
education and transportation with
different member nations leading
different initiatives
aiming to better interconnect the
regions surrounding the mekong and
ganges rivers
still staying within south asia we also
see the bay of bengal
whose bordering countries aside from
malaysia and indonesia
are all part of the bay of bengal
initiative for multi-sectoral technical
and economic cooperation
or bimstec seeing as these countries are
all dependents on the bay of bengal for
basically all their little country
things like
trade these seven nations have agreed to
cooperate in regard to 14 different
economic sectors
trade and investment transport and
communication energy
tourism technology fisheries agriculture
public health poverty alleviation
counterterrorism
environmental disaster management
people-to-people contact cultural
cooperation and climate change
and initially formed in 1997 in bangkok
under the name bist ek the name
gradually being tweaked over the years
next up is an alliance called the
shanghai organization german
the shanghai cooperation organization
between eight full member states four
observer states
six dialogue partners and four guest
attendances
the seo was founded in 2001 between the
five nations previously part of the
shanghai five
and uzbekistan no prizes on guessing
where the treaty was signed
with india and pakistan joining in 2017
the sco
is more based on military cooperation
than the other more economically focused
organizations within the chart
conducting regular military exercises
for the security of member states
over in the middle east we have the gcc
or gulf cooperation council
which i also already talked about in a
previous video but basically comprises
all of the persian gulf nations whose
names aren't ira something
namely saudi arabia kuwait bahrain qatar
the emirates and oman
the gcc is much more interconnected than
the other organizations on our list thus
far
at least in terms of freedom of movement
as gcc citizens aside from qataris in
recent years
are free to live and work in other
member nations the gcc was founded in
1981
as a political and economic union with
more recent suggestions from saudi
arabia to form it into a kind of gulf
union
largely as a kind of counterbalance to
iranian influence in the region
you can learn more about them in the
first part of the series though so i
won't waste your time here
now for a union that got actually a
fairly surprising amount of mentions in
the comments of the first video
the turkic council made up of turkey
azerbaijan kazakhstan kyrgyzstan and
uzbekistan
and was hungry as an observer state with
headquarters in istanbul baku
norton formerly astana and interestingly
enough for reasons i just mentioned
budapest the turkic council was
established in 2009
as a method of common dialogue among the
turkic states of the world
emphasizing mutual friendship favorable
conditions for trade
and promoting regional cooperation among
other goals
comprising of the full members of the
turkic council plus five of their
neighbors
is the somewhat generically named
economic cooperation organization
essentially a trade bloc between these
nations to promote trade and investment
opportunities between these ten nations
as well as somewhat easier sea access
for all the landlocked nations
lastly we have the asia cooperation
dialogue or
acd see an intergovernmental
organization comprising all but 12 to 15
of the countries of asia
it's not exactly like the european or
african unions
but it is kind of sort of the closest
thing we currently have to an asian
union
described as a kind of missing link in
intercontinental diplomacy
and aiming to stand for cooperation
among asian countries maintaining
independence of said countries
and integrating some of the previous
organizations we've covered here
it was founded in 2002 by 18 founding
members
having since grown to its current member
count of 34.
so that was at least a basic summary of
asia's international unions
or at least those from this chart on
wikipedia now my summaries might have
been brief
but most of these unions are really just
economic or governmental unions
aimed at increasing trade or cooperation
or dialogue between a group of countries
maybe a couple could have been video
worthy but maybe not all of them
hence me cramming them all into this
video also perhaps i should be glad i
chose to talk about asia in this video
seeing as earlier this week the channel
tldr news eu
literally made this exact video but for
europe so if you want to learn more
about that you can check out their video
i guess
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