在过去的三十年间,太平洋地区各国的经济发生了重大的变化。首先是,日本从第二次世界大战的废墟上掘起,经济上在太平洋地区以至全世界居主导地位。其次是,东亚新兴工业化国家和地区(南朝鲜、台湾和香港)同样取得了引人注目的经济发展。这种发展的第三个浪潮是,经济上与国际市场相联系的正在实现现代化的中国以及东南亚国家联盟各国(文莱、印度尼西亚、马来西亚、菲律宾、新加坡和泰国)的崛起。 Over the past three decades, major changes have taken place in the economies of Pacific nations. First of all, Japan has escalated from the rubble of World War II and has dominance in the Pacific region and even in the world economically. Second, the newly industrialized countries and regions in East Asia (South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong) have also made remarkable economic progress. A third wave of this development is the rise of the modernizing China and countries of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand) that are economically linked to international markets.