The Oriental Couchette

... the project because of the huge American market. Now they will be forced to settle for smaller markets. A number of separate meetings involving the leaders and high-ranking ministers of TPP-11 countries will be held on the sidelines of the upcoming APEC summit, though the experts do not express much optimism in this regard. Against this background, the RCEP should have got a second wind. But its prospects are also vague, to put it mildly. The deadline for negotiations has been postponed three times already and is now scheduled for early 2018. We are now into the twentieth round of negotiations, and ...