... 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 distribution of power.
Bordering three of Canada’s four cardinal vectors, Russia will present strategic challenges—and opportunities—for ...
... history, can’t help giving the public opinion reasons for concern. But in the end, an inadequate and distorted picture of Russian diplomacy is taking shape, while one of its basic principles says that it ought to be multi-directional.
It is also true ... ... 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, ...
... both a challenge and an opportunity. It is a challenge because staying outside of such a mega-bloc involves losses in terms of trade diversion and possibly investment flows. The good news, however, is that given the inclusive and open-ended nature of RCEP, there may be a whole range of areas, where Russia and its partners from the Eurasian Economic Union could cooperate with RCEP, including in such key areas as connectivity, investment, e-commerce, etc. As RCEP develops into a full-fledged mega-bloc its gravity pull may attract not only Russia, ...
... agriculture to climate change.
Ivan Timofeev:
What is the Difference between Sanctions against China and Sanctions against Russia?
The most important issue in terms of the APEC’s responsibilities is, of course, the formation of the Asia-Pacific Free ... ... 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 ...
