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The Asia-Pacific: More Stable than Anyone Thinks

... Russia in the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO). As with the WTO, the idea is to make membership in the TPP indispensable and only then to invite China and Russia to join. China is using its economic leverage to promote an alternative to the TPP that it calls the Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP). It has had little success. As the host of the November 2014 APEC summit, China was able to push through an agreement to conduct a two-year study of the potential for an FTAAP, in effect delaying any formal negotiations until 2017 at the earliest....

24.03.2015

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Great Minds Think Alike

... Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Science, Visiting Scholar at Stanford University At the APEC Beijing Summit 2014, the different understandings of FTAAP and 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 ...

17.11.2014

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U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements	33 (31%)
U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity	30 (28%)
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U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China	21 (19%)