... US-facilitating role.
For Australia to host Pence simultaneously in Cairns – an insult to PNG – and to allow Pence to announce in the APEC meeting in PNG the Australia-US joint base to be built on PNG sovereign territory, was grossly insensitive and clumsy . These ... ... and mutually respectful engagement with our region at the rate of knots. First the continuing regional disaster over the Jerusalem Embassy gambit, now this Port Moresby debacle. We will know to our cost if this government in its remaining months manages ...
The APEC Summit in Vietnam may be remembered for a number of reasons, although not necessarily for anything related to the APEC itself
On November 6–11, the city of Da Nang in central Vietnam will host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic ...
... multinational companies interests in the Asia-Pacific Region (APR). Sources close to the White House claim that more than 600 US corporations were involved in the text drafting and preliminary negotiations with partner countries. All TPP countries are APEC economies. Australia, Canada, Mexico, the United States and Japan are G20 member-states.
It is important to note that none of the provisions in the TPP agreement contradicts the principles of the World Trade Organization (WTO). However, TPP launches ...
... the Asia-Pacific. Another point that is less obvious is how Russia and its partners should respond. Naturally, we live in a differentiated world from the perspective of economic institutions: the WTO is eroding; the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is being deformed. I believe the Trans-Pacific Partnership will become a direct threat for the APEC that is losing its function of the principal bloc in the Asia-Pacific, which coordinates integration and convergence, decreases in tariffs and rates,...
... community of the U.S. West Coast.
Reflecting the sides’ specific characteristics, the topics included international activities in Asia-Pacific, the China factor in today’s world, development of the Russian Far East in the context of the APEC economic processes, future Russia-U.S. cooperation with regard to their common maritime boundary. Separate attention was given to the processes in the post-Soviet space, chiefly the Ukraine crisis and the situation in the Caucasus.
The event was ...
... Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Interviewer:
Maria Prosviryakova
, Russian International Affairs Council
Photo: Andrew Kuchins, Director of the
Russia and Eurasia Program, Center for Strategic
and International Studies
The USA hosted APEC summit in 2011. What did the APEC presidency give the USA?
It is a natural responsibility for APEC members to host the meeting in sequence. The U.S. presidency was successful and there was a progress made in a number of different areas. It expressed ...
... understand that the cost of this obsession with the geopolitical task of replacing the regime in Syria will be hundreds and thousands of lives of the Syrians themselves.
The choice is very simple but, of course, terrible. In my talks with my counterparts,... ... countering of terrorism. Finally, we should not discount the fundamental area that is trade and economic cooperation.
[Chernenko] The APEC summit was held in the Russian Federation recently. But why is Russia not being very active in building the infrastructure ...
