"Industry 4.0 is an accelerating, expanding priority in Vietnam, and Australia’s position as a relative front runner provides opportunities to market training, technology and services in Vietnam”.
- Asia Society Australia Supply Chain Fellow Vinh Thai on the launch of the Strengthening Victoria’s Connections with Southeast Asia: Industry 4.0 in Viet Nam – Opportunities for Australian Business report in the Mirage News.

“It opens the door for a leaders‘ meetings that is something more than, certainly in China’s eyes, an engagement in the margins of the G20 or some other major international meeting".
- Asia Society Australia executive director for policy Richard Maude on Penny Wong's visit to China in The Australian.

"For the EU, ASEAN's growing population of nearly 700 million predominantly young and increasingly middle-class citizens represents an economic opportunity. Unlike the U.S., the EU is open to the notion of a blocwide free trade agreement with ASEAN, although work on one has been put on hold in favor of pacts with individual members."
- Asia Society Policy Institute research associate Dominique Fraser's OpEd on the growing opportunities between the EU and ASEAN in Nikkei Asia.