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geopolitics
Despite promising start, Taiwan misses free trade deals
| 22-April-2013
The island known for moving big batches of electronics to world markets is struggling to keep a toehold in Asia politically and economically against rivals that make the same stuff and have more trade deals, writes the business magazine Forbes
Joining TPP best answer for worries of further US encirclement
| 10-April-2013
It is easy to perceive why China is highly apprehensive at the thought of Japan joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). This move fits into a complex pattern that has fed China’s paranoia about being encircled.
China left out of Obama free trade party
| 2-April-2013
Obama’s new trade approach might be characterised as ABC – Anyone But China.
Experts call for BRICS free trade pact
| 27-March-2013
"BRICS should consider proposing a free trade agreement at the summit, regardless of whether it’s feasible right now," said Wang Junwen, chairman of the China Association of International Trade.
Australian-US alliance a factor in Chinese investment decisions
| 1-March-2013
The growing size and value of China’s investments in Australia makes the case for a bilateral investment treaty increasingly urgent, according to a leading China expert.
ANALYSE—Un accord libre-échange UE/USA semble concevable
| 18-February-2013
L’UE sera probablement plus ouverte lors des négociations sur le libre-échange, par crainte de se voir marginalisée, alors que les Etats-Unis négocient avec leurs partenaires asiatiques et océaniens l’extension d’un autre traité, l’Accord de partenariat trans-pacifique (TPP).
EU-Ukrainian Association Agreement: To sign or not to sign?
| 12-December-2012
The leak of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement (AA) turns the focus of their relations to a Shakespearean question: to sign or not to sign.
Pak-US hectic talks on BIT draft
| 2-September-2012
Pakistan and the United States remained engaged on Friday to narrow their differences over the draft of Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) which Islamabad and Washington have been discussing since March 2012
S. Korea says Japan free trade talks ‘difficult’ due to tensions
| 27-August-2012
South Korea said resuming negotiations with Japan over a free trade agreement will be difficult given a maritime territorial spat.
Geopolitical tsunami in the Southern Cone
| 9-August-2012
When the Paraguayan Senate approved the “political judgment” against Fernando Lugo on June 22, it unleashed the biggest political crisis in the Mercosur in the last 20 years. The dust still hasn’t settled, but it’s clear that nothing will be the same since the shake-up.
Asia Pacific talks not aimed at containing China - US official
| 9-August-2012
Some in China see the Trans Pacific Partnership as a US attempt to rewrite the rules of trade for the region to economically contain China, whose rapid growth continues to rattle many lawmakers and companies in the United States. Deputy USTR Demetrios Marantis rejects the charge.
Goods from occupied lands should not be part of trade deal with Israel
| 21-May-2012
In late 2010, former trade minister Peter Van Loan announced that Canada and Israel would start exploratory talks to upgrade the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement (CIFTA). Earlier this year, the Ministry of International Trade finished public consultations and is now in internal discussions to implement the upgrades.
Heart breaker: US says Pakistan cannot offer much in free trade
| 28-January-2012
The United States has said that a free trade accord is too big for Pakistan as there is no match between the economies of the two countries, says a top official of the commerce ministry.
Taiwan’s Ma seeks to join Trans-Pacific Partnership
| 25-January-2012
US President Barack Obama’s promotion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership multilateral free trade agreement, put forward in November at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Hawaii, is seen as a strategic tool to drive a wedge between the US and its Asia-Pacific friends on one side and China on the other.
TLC: Hora de evaluar costos y beneficios
| 12-December-2011
Los objetivos de impulsar la economía nacional y controlar los flujos de capital volátiles deberían tener prioridad en esta crisis mundial, pero los TLC impiden o dificultan este tipo de medidas políticas.
Entrevista al analista Modesto Emilio Guerrero: "EEUU ya no es el mismo, el mundo tampoco"
| 27-September-2011
“El poder militar es la frontera de resguardo del poder económico”, definió el especialista, y “Estados Unidos es el único que tiene, por ahora, esa capacidad militar global, pero se apoya en un aparato económico y financiero cada vez más débil, y no existe poder militar separado del económico..."
Patrick Messerlin : « Derrière la multiplication des accords bilatéraux, un objectif de politique étrangère »
| 21-July-2011
A l’occasion de la publication du rapport annuel de l’Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC) sur le commerce mondial et alors que le cycle de Doha sur la libéralisation du commerce patine depuis bientôt dix ans, Patrick Messerlin, directeur du Groupe d’économie mondiale de Sciences Po, revient sur les raisons de la prolifération des accords bilatéraux de libre-échange.
Linking Kashmir to trade
| 15-June-2011
The European Parliament has passed a resolution linking a Free Trade Agreement with India to an improvement in its human rights records, and to greater democracy.
India, Pakistan agree to enhance trade
| 28-April-2011
India and Pakistan agreed Thursday to set up a joint working group to enhance trade, in a further move designed to ease tensions between the nuclear-armed South Asian rivals, officials said.
TLC culpable de migración en México: Noam Chomsky
| 22-September-2010
El escritor criticó la estrategia de Estados Unidos para controlar a otros países. El también filósofo criticó la estrategia de Washington y su relación con el mundo. |
L’accord entre l’Union Européenne et l’Inde menace l’accès aux traitements en Afrique du Nord et au Moyen-Orient
| 12-April-2013
Colombia: Nueve propuestas mínimas para la reafirmación de la soberanía frente al capital transnacional
| 26-March-2013
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