The New APEC Agenda: Inclusive and Sustainable Growth is More Important than Integration

... within APEC, had every chance to steal the APEC Leaders’ week headlines. But it all boiled down to a brief meeting of 12 TPP leaders outside the summit’s main programme and an emotionless reference to the agreement in the declaration as one of possible Pathways to the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP), along with the need of the early completion of negotiations for Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). , of which the Philippines is a member. Special attention to the American project could have annoyed China, with which the Philippines has enough ...