The APEC Summit in Vietnam may be remembered for a number of reasons, although not necessarily ... ... 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... ... the APEC relies on existing negotiation formats – the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). The problem is that neither...
... 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 by signing the preliminary agreement of the Sino-Korean FTA. If Japan does not join FTAAP, then it could not compete with Korean products on huge ...