... 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 of the Asia-Pacific Free ... ... 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 ...
... nothing to improve relations. Russian-Chinese relations are not marred by such ideological divergences, which simplifies them considerably.
Russia's economy is not 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 ...
... of the 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 its global political role through ...
... 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 ...
