... United States is in
no hurry
to return due to
political problems domestically
.
The multilateral structure of the new framework is, naturally, aimed at containing China and precluding the successes of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) through shoring up U.S. dominance in the region and exporting American-fashioned institutions, regulatory practices and certification standards for investment projects. It is also designed to reduce China’s admittedly very low chances of
joining ...
... undertaken by developing nations to build pan-continental integration platforms – in Africa it was the creation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), while in Eurasia the expansion of SCO membership was accompanied by the creation of RCEP. The next stage in this process would be to link up all of the pan-continental platforms in Eurasia, Africa and Latin America into one common platform that would cover the bulk of the developing world with important implications for the future evolution ...
... arrangements (RFAs) of the countries of Eurasia.
The platform for regional integration arrangements would work towards advancing greater inter-operability into the digital platforms of Eurasia’s regional groupings such as the EU, the EAEU, ASEAN, RCEP, EFTA, BIMSTEC, SAFTA, GCC.
The platform for regional development banks and funds such as EDB, EIB, ADB, EBRD, SDF, CAF would focus on building project portfolios in the area of digital cooperation/digital connectivity/digital inclusiveness and work ...
... could be incorporated into any future efforts to harmonize existing regional trade blocs, including the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and the recently signed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). Exploring opportunities for Canadian companies and representatives to strengthen federalism and economic development in Russia’s Far East represents another potential shared strategic interest, as this would further solidify Asia’s multipolar ...
... based on mutual respect and equality. The ASEAN member states set the tone, surely playing a system-forming role in all regional projects and projecting their political culture and practice—the so-called ASEAN way—onto them.
Yaroslav Lissiovolik:
RCEP: A Crucial Milestone in Mega-Regionalism
And that happens at the time when, after the West’s 150-year-long domination, the combined result of the Industrial Revolution and the creation of colonial empires, the role of global economy’s engine ...
RCEP will deliver a strong impulse to greater liberalization in the world economy in the coming years
RCEP will deliver a strong impulse to greater liberalization in the world economy in the coming years, with US and China increasingly likely to compete ...
... Free Trade Area. Against the background of today’s abundance of mega-regional formats of economic integration, the APEC relies on existing negotiation formats – the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). The problem is that neither of these formats is in particularly good shape right now. Following the withdrawal of the United States from the TPP, the remaining countries are trying to agree on at least something in the TPP-11 format, “freezing” ...
