... food security and adapting 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 ... ... 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 ...
... relations. The U.S. and China should make every effort to move forward to a beneficial partnership. Neither party wants confrontation and conflict. Both realise how much is at stake, and how much they have to gain from a successful, stable relationship. China’s future membership in TPP, dialogue and cooperation between the Pentagon and China’s military, and a pragmatic approach to managing regional differences points the way to a better future. Both the United States and China want and deserve an Asia-Pacific region that is ...
... 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 world’s biggest ...
... conceptual TPP, Beijing has begun building tangible infrastructures along the Silk Routes of yore, with each spur creating new economic opportunities. A new airport will facilitate trade, tourism and regional connectivity. And more jobs.
While the TPP employs a Western "concepts-first approach"; China lays the physical groundwork for brisk trade. The laws, customs and languages of natives are rarely affected. They either participate in a project or profit from goods transiting through their sovereign territories.
That is precisely what frustrates ...
... principal bloc in the Asia-Pacific, which coordinates integration and convergence, decreases in tariffs and rates, and improvements in trade and economic relations. Importantly, politically the APEC brings together all major powers, including Russia and China.
Experts and politicians are aware that the TPP is an American integration project within the Asia-Pacific.
Unfortunately, Russia and China are not APP members, which will encourage them to increase their presence in the APEC. We will be watching the APEC and the APP compete. The Russia–China ...
... North Korea as countries "undermining regional security directly and through proxy forces." All have been placed under sanctions, while new agreements would tighten the restraints on their economic presence in any regions the U.S. chooses.
The TPP may also push China toward closer cooperation with Russia and the BRICS countries both in economic and political realms, which would not be a bad outcome in the current environment, while the TTIP would inflict enormous damage on Russia.
The West would be able to strengthen ...
... agreement. It also includes highly controversial provisions on the protection of
intellectual property
and the subjugation of national laws to
transnational tribunals
.
Notably absent from negotiations over the TPP are two major Asia-Pacific powers: China and Russia. The TPP will later be presented to China and Russia as a fait accompli with basic rules already set by the United States and its allies. The same trick was played against China and Russia in the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO). As with the ...
... TPP had become the key issues that attracted worldwide attention. If compared to TPP, FTAAP is a pan Asian-Pacific, inclusive free trade plan, where all major players on Asian-Pacific market (e.g. Japan, South Korea, Russia etc.) are included. While TPP does not embrace China and Russia. On top of that, Japan has some disagreements with the US on “fully open agro-products market”.
Dr Xu Wenhong
At the APEC summit 2014 in Beijing, the FTAAP achieved important breakthroughs. South Korea gave FTAAP a big push ...
