... responsibilities is, of course, the formation of the Asia-Pacific 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 ...
... fresh take on the issue. The U.S. pivot to the Asia-Pacific in Obama Administration has concentrated on reinforcing traditional alliances, redeploying Navy forces, and creating multilateral cooperation mechanisms, such as Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Unfortunately, mounting suspicions have undermined the Sino-U.S. relationship and stability and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific. Washington needs to take a larger, more constructive approach. It needs not only to engage China but use U.S. leverage ...
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement signed in February 2016 is one of the main achievements of US policy of promoting American multinational companies interests in the Asia-Pacific Region (APR). Sources close to the White House claim that more than 600 US corporations were ...
... comparable to China's one. Just like Russia’s political leverage, however, the Russian economy is big enough to constitute an important factor in how China shapes its relations with the US and its allies. Efforts to form a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) run counter to China’s interests in a number of ways. In America, meanwhile, discontent with China’s economic policy is growing, stoked in recent months by unilateral moves to devalue the Yuan, which sent tremors coursing through the ...
... Agreement (EVFTA). For Vietnam, this document will be a sound ending to a Free Trade Year of sorts: in 2015, similar agreements were signed with the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) and South Korea not to mention the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). Observers are disputing the potential benefits of this binge signing of free trade agreements, but there is little doubt that this strategy is a product certain economic and political logic.
European officials call the concluded EVFTA unprecedented ...
... initiative did not propose any quantative indicators as a basis for comparison. Such indicators (
Key Accountability Areas)
were proposed in 2015 and spelled out in a supplement to the leaders’ declaration.
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Will the TPP rupture Asia Pacific
For Russia, promotion of economic growth and sustainable development are far more relevant and interesting themes than the APEC integration agenda, to which Russia has little to contribute, and about which it can hardly boast....
... while tens of thousands of Tamils died from clearing Malaria-infested forests for a colonial transplantation called rubber.
Natives no longer had a voice in how they produced goods and at what price.
The recently signed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement follows the same meme. The "partnership" was forged without input or scrutiny from citizens of the 12 signatory nations.
Even US Congress members were denied a copy of draft proposals to evaluate the TPP's benefits or ...
Interview with Natalya Stapran, Alexander Gabuyev, Sergey Luzyanin and Won Dong Cho
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal was sealed on 5 October 2015. Moscow’s stance on the TPP has not been defined yet.
The Russian International Affairs Council has asked
Natalya Stapran
, Associate Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies, Moscow State Institute ...
The prospect of a reduced economic presence resulting from its exclusion from global trade agreements prompts Russia to seek alternative scenarios to sustain its influence.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) – the two global trading blocs under negotiation for several years with varying degrees of success – could form an architecture for regional cooperation that benefits the United ...
... regime.
REUTERS/Host Photo Agency
EEU-Vietnam Free Trade: the Devil Is in the
Details.
Interview with Vladimir Mazyrin
Both leaders committed themselves, in cooperation with other nations, to complete negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and to carry out reforms necessary to reach a high-standard agreement.
Third, both leaders committed themselves, in cooperation with other nations, to complete negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and to carry out reforms necessary ...
