Polit. System	Econ. System	Security Ties	Regional Assn.
JAPAN	elite democracy	post-industrial state capitalism	U.S.	APEC, ASEAN/ PMC, ASEAN+3, ARF
NIE-4*	centralized/ authoritarian ºcompetitive	state capitalism; export-led	U.S. (Korea, Taiwan)	APEC, ASEAN (Sing), or ASEAN/ PMC (S. Korea=ASEAN+3)
ASEAN-10**	mostly one-party dominant systems	Mostly export-led, exc. VN, Lao, Cambodia, Burma	norm of noninterference but dependent on US presence	ASEAN, APEC
CHINA	one-party state	socialist market		APEC, ASEAN+3 ARF
N. Korea, Burma	one-party states	State (military)-run		ASEAN (Burma) ARF (NK)
Australia, New Zealand	Democratic	capitalist, export-oriented	US (Aus)	APEC, ASEAN/ PMC

* Singapore, South Korea (ROK), Taiwan (ROC), Hong Kong

** Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, Vietnam, Burma (Myanmar), Laos, Cambodia