ASEAN Economic Community: ASEAN countries carry on their regional integration relying among others on competition rules(Blueprint 2025)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. January 1, 2016 marked the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), the Economic Community of Southeast Asian Association States (ASEAN) originally formed in 1967 in the context of the Vietnam War with the support of the United States and Japan (V. S. Yon-Courtin, "ASEAN Economic Ministers issue a set of regional competition rules including competition guidelines". S. Yon-Courtin, "ASEAN is continuing its regionalization process with the IIIrd Competition Conference"; S. Yon-Courtin, "L'ASEAN poursuit son processus de régionalisation avec la IIIe Conférence de la concurrence".). At the end of 2015, the ASEAN Member States adopted a Blue Paper