16世纪初,当伟大的航海家麦哲伦从大西洋向西航行到另一个大洋的时候,发现这个大洋风平浪静,异常驯服,麦哲伦便把他“发现”的这个大洋称作“太平洋”。而今,几个世纪过去,太平洋已除却昔日性情,正以排山巨浪,猛叩新世纪之门。 位于太平洋西岸、亚洲东部“新月地带”南端的东盟,无疑是催生“亚太世纪”、“太平洋时代”的“弄潮儿”。 When the great navigator Magellan sailed westward from the Atlantic Ocean to another ocean in the early 16th century and found the ocean calm and tame, Magellan referred to the “discovery” of the ocean as “the Pacific Ocean.” Today, over the centuries, the Pacific has riddled with its former temperament and is now knocking at the door of the new century with huge waves. ASEAN, located on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean and south of the “Crescent Zone” in eastern Asia, is undoubtedly the “beach-governess” that has given birth to the “Asia-Pacific Century” and the “Pacific Age.”