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Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (ASEAN+6)

China pushing for RCEP signing this year
20-Mar-2020 SHINE
China is working with other parties to push for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) to be signed as scheduled.
ASEAN presses on with the RCEP without India: How they covered it
16-Mar-2020 ASEAN Today
Despite India’s decision to withdraw from the final stages of negotiations to form the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the remaining parties hope to get the free trade agreement (FTA) signed off by the end of the year.
Asean agrees to persuade India to return to RCEP
13-Mar-2020 New Straits Times
Asean nations have agreed to try and persuade India to return to the negotiating table for the 16 nation Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade deal.
India exploring nuts and bolts of possible FTA with Australia
12-Mar-2020 BusinessLine
Trade Ministers of both countries are working on what they can offer each other.
US urges Australia to expand Pacific push to South-East Asia to counter China’s expansion
12-Mar-2020 ABC
The Trump Administration has called on the Morrison Government to extend its "step-up" strategy in the Pacific to South-East Asia, as Washington grapples with China’s rising regional influence.
RCEP deal expected to be signed late 2020: ASEAN secretary general
12-Mar-2020 Xinhua Net
The RCEP deal is expected to be signed at the end of this year, ASEAN Secretary-General Dato Lim Jock Hoi said on the sideline of the 26th Meeting of ASEAN Economic Ministers Retreat.
Moving out of RCEP in interest of India’s business, says MEA Jaishankar
9-Mar-2020 Business Standard
Moving out of the RCEP was in the interest of India’s business, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday.
New Zealand to wait for trade pact if India out of RCEP
4-Mar-2020 Fibre 2 Fashion
New Zealand will look forward to a bilateral trade agreement with India if New Delhi does not join the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).
With no major trade deals signed in recent years, India turning an outlier
3-Mar-2020 The New Indian Express
The feeling now in global trade negotiating circles is that India is a recalcitrant partner, difficult to negotiate with.
Understanding India’s RCEP hesitation
3-Mar-2020 Fortune India
Pressure on India to join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) has continued, including most recently from Oceania.
New Zealand for bilateral trade pact with India if New Delhi does not join RCEP
27-Feb-2020 BusinessLine
New Zealand on Thursday said it will look forward to a bilateral trade agreement with India in case New Delhi does not join the China-backed mega trade deal RCEP.
NZ strongly encourages India to become participant of RCEP: Winston Peters
27-Feb-2020 Outlook India
New Zealand strongly encourages India to become a full participant in RCEP as its absence is neither in the economic nor the strategic interest of the region, Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand Winston Peters said on Wednesday.
Australia willing to consider bilateral FTA with India on the lines of RCEP
25-Feb-2020 BusinessLine
Australian Trade Minister leads high-level delegation, holds talk with Indian counterpart Piyush Goyal.
Modi govt keen on trade pact with Australia as RCEP takes backseat
21-Feb-2020 The Print
New Delhi wants to resume negotiations on the long-pending Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement with Australia, talks for which stalled in 2015.
Simply Put: India and US — matters of trade
20-Feb-2020 The Indian Express
India’s existing and stalled bilateral FTAs started to receive attention from the government last year, even as the country worked to join the RCEP, the world’s “largest” regional trade pact.
Vietnam: Asean economic integration meeting in Hanoi a success
18-Feb-2020 The Star
Vietnam’s Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Trần Quốc Khánh talks to Vietnam News Agency about what went on at the recent meeting on Asean economic integration in Hanoi.
Australian Trade Minister to visit India this month; to push trade, investment ties
14-Feb-2020 BusinessLine
Australian Trade Minister will meet his Indian counterpart, likely to discuss RCEP and long-pending bilateral trade agreement.
South Korea to sign RCEP with or without India
13-Feb-2020 Auto Economic Times
South Korea will sign the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) pact with ASEAN countries, China, Japan, Australia and New Zealand in November 2020, irrespective of India’s participation, claims a media report.
S. Korea eyes further economic cooperation with India
11-Feb-2020 Yonhap News Agency
Consider India as the key partner of the country’s New Southern policy, South Korea need to further beef up the economic cooperation.
Chengdu Trilateral Summit still to deliver
11-Feb-2020 East Asia Forum
The fact that China, Japan and South Korea (CJK) engaged in an agreed-upon trilateral summit framework, and bilateral dialogues on the sidelines, was no small achievement given heightened tensions between the three countries.