I on China as well the late sixties China was starting to get back up on its feet in starting to become a world power again so the Southeast Asian Nation was okey we should bind ourselves together to effectively counter all of major world powers are from our direct north also from across the oceans very forward-thinking grouping at such an early time 20th century since then since the original five the membership has expanded to include Brunei burma AKA Myanmar I still call it burma cambodia Laos and Veitnam much like Brazil is to Mercosur or the US is to NAFTA can jot this down indonesia is the biggest economic in this Asia on grouping you bought by twice as much I am it does Kinda see itself natural as a leader I love the region's slash the Asian on block now other Asian members may disagree with that not Ok but it indonesia is currently biggest it is what I consider one rising regional powers and Asia on really is got it back on that's one of the reasons that its getting big in Asia and is getting bigger the same time so what is a Deere John how well course they want to accelerate economic growth surprise surprise is already told you this is in essence a trade block its the basis for but they also do some other features which make unique including social progress they'd like to focus on this a hey we like workers are we going to maybe think about provide more benefits for folks making this whole area better place and culturally don't roll up ourselves to become real series world countries an world powers and also we want to work towards protection a peace and stability with in our block well that this the first one we've gotten to where that was started goal from the get go out yes we're forming up a John is an economic bloc but we also want to work on peace and stability because you can't have economic growth if you don't got peace and stability and as I've already mentioned many of these countries were involved in civil wars or I been led by brutal dictators or had foreign intervention at the time that they decided to start the block up so they have actually got a lot the Ac on organization has done a lot really to help stabilize and have peace in this region so they can have economic growth get there not richest entity in the world but they're getting there and his organization is really help now do they do trade sure they tip but they are so much more the ACR block is really I believe my assessment it striving to be much like the European Union they are going past simple economic growth in economic collaboration and very concrete ways that should probably think about jot the Jean group is expanding