... eliminated immediately, while the remaining duties will be removed over a period of up to 10 years.
The EU
emphasizes
that the free trade agreement with Vietnam
is a stepping stone towards free trade with the whole Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)
. Previously, a similar agreement was reached with Singapore.
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Will the TPP rupture Asia Pacific
Since trade in goods facilitation is the trend of the season and thus rarely comes as a surprise, other provisions ...
... primarily, because the terrorist organization poses a very real threat to the national security of countries all over the world. It is these considerations that prompted Southeast Asian countries to hold a special ministerial
meeting
under the aegis of the ASEAN on the growth of radicalism and violent extremism.
While this is not a new problem for the region (religious confrontations between Muslims and Christians, and between Buddhists and Muslims, flare up from time to time in various Southeast Asian ...
The annual conference of ASEAN foreign ministers is much more than just a meeting of the foreign policy chiefs of ten Southeast Asian countries. The event traditionally kicks off official dialogue between colleagues who speak on behalf of the Association’s Dialogue Partners ...
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The situation around the South China Sea is developing rapidly. However, asserting unambiguously that territorial disputes between China and the ASEAN countries combined with the regional rivalry between Beijing and Washington are bound to lead to military confrontation is too far-fetched. Despite growing U.S. military and political presence, countries in South-East Asia tend to favor enhanced ...
... Shanghai spirit not as an abstract concept but rather as an issue of its foreign policy.
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Regular meeting of the Council of Ministers of
Foreign Affairs of Shanghai Cooperation
Organization (SCO), 2-13 July 2013
In your 2012 article "ASEAN and Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Similar Trends and Tasks,"
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you wrote that the two organizations could supplement each other without causing any harm to their independence. Have you noticed any signs of their practical engagement ...
... one of the major changes, of course, has been the emergence of East Asia, Southeast Asia and particularly China as major poles of the global economy and global geopolitical setup. I would like to remind you that China’s ascent has coincided with ASEAN’s own emergence as an indispensible actor in regional security discussions. From a loose grouping of 5 countries in 1967 with a very limited purview, ASEAN has evolved into a respected and established association which has, in fact, become ...
... economic life of Cambodia. Is this is due to the real economic interests of these countries or the desire to gain political influence within Cambodia?
For China, Cambodia is a country with which it maintains a very close cooperation within the framework of ASEAN. Together with Laos and Myanmar, Cambodia forms a block that increasingly gravitates towards China. The main flow of Chinese investment in the region is directed towards these least developed and most dependent countries.
The country now is no longer ...
Last Friday, fireworks displays in Sevastopol, Simferopol and Moscow marked Crimea's accession to the Russian Federation. Just before that, the United States introduced first real economic sanctions against Russia by targeting a bank. Half a million Russian MasterCard/Visa cardholders were immediately affected. Responding to this, the Russian government reactivated the suspended project for a national electronic payments system, broadly analogous to Japan's JCB. The French government has postponed...
... giving impetus to further economic activities. At the same time, the dominance of Chinese minorities in very profitable sectors and in the export of capital to the PRC is causing suspicion among indigenous populations. China's rapprochement with the ASEAN is not only strengthening diaspora peoples and boosting their business prospects, but also generating alarmism amongst the locals.
Without a doubt, these divergent trends are bound to continue.
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... New Foreign Policy Concept
The theory is that Germany could play the role of a “moneybag”, so to speak, paying for projects aimed at consolidating the anti-China coalition. This is evidenced by the financial support it renders to various ASEAN institutions and programs for developing regional integration. Since 2005, Germany has
spent more than $80 million
to this end. Putting the “Merkel doctrine” (i.e. support of countries in the region through the supply of arms) into ...
