Asia Quote by Sellapan Ramanathan

“You are slowly developing some multinationals of your own. We certainly hope that some of them will look in this direction when they look for opportunities because the progress of Southeast Asia is important to China, just as China's progress is important to us.”

Sellapan Ramanathan

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