Siem Reap, in western Cambodia, is best know as the home to the Angkor Wat temples. But for the next three days, it will also have perhaps Asia’s highest concentration of pro-free market advocates here attending the Economic Freedom Network Asia‘s annual conference.
After an opening dinner last night, today started with speeches from the Deputy Prime Minister of Cambodia, as well as George Mason University’s Lawrence H. White. Other morning panelists included Parth Shah of the Centre for Civil Society and Prof. Kriengsak Chareonwongsak of the Institute for Future Studies for Development. The afternoon sessions featured a rather interesting series of breakout panels. I chaired one small session on tools for spreading liberty in authoritarian societies, while others discussed a range of topics, including the causes of the economic crisis, the sequencing of economic and political reform, and the importance of business ethics, among others.
At night, I had dinner with Indian and Chinese colleagues to discuss an exciting new project that we’re working on to spread free trade between China and India. There is a great degree of misunderstanding between the two neighboring countries, and the voices of free trade and peace are not getting the hearing they should. The group aims to stop this trend with a targeted campaign of getting a free trade agreement between the two countries on the public agenda.
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