Part two of the Draft Charter

Part Two of the Draft Charter can be said to catalyze the transformation from dispersed and overlapping processes of agenda setting to the construction of single East Asian policy acquis. The policy acquis encompasses not only the accumulation of consensus on agenda setting, but also the achievement of a region-building project: the region-building project necessarily entails the establishment of a regional governance system in which concrete common actions at both national and East Asian levels would be planned. The evolutionary process has been brought about against a background of developing East Asian regionalism. East Asian regionalism is originated from a proposal in the early 1990s of an East Asian Economic Caucus led by Mr. Mahathir, the then Malaysian Prime Minister. In this way, the policy review system of the Draft Charter establishes the regular political communication that is expected to foster an East Asian normative order.