As global economic recovery is currently underway, Asia has been in the spotlight for its role in injecting vitality into global free trade. So what are the prospects for the Asian market? What changes will China's industrial transformation and upgrading bring to the region? And what role can the Global South play in cooperating to tackle global crises?

Guest in this edition of Dialogue is Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, under-secretary-general of the United Nations.