23-Jan-2017
The Sun Daily
Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry Datuk Ahmad Maslan said that Malaysia was ready with other alternatives, such as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership.
17-Jan-2017
Malaya Business Insight
Bigger countries are potentially derailing the progress of this regional economic agreement being negotiated between the 10 Asean countries and their six FTA partners – Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea.
16-Jan-2017
American University Washington College of Law
Panel discussing the rise and fall of major trade deals.
12-Jan-2017
Third World Resurgence
In highlighting that the drafts of many of its key chapters are substantially similar to those of the TPP, Sanya Reid Smith warns that the RCEP may end up as a replica of the former.
10-Jan-2017
The Jakarta Post
The current trade and business environment in East Asia and Pacific require a new set of rules to provide governance in the regional economic interdependence and to facilitate seamless international trade and business activities.
10-Jan-2017
Third World Network
Negotiations by 16 Asia-Pacific nations to establish the RCEP - the world’s largest trading bloc - have been proceeding since 2012. Surveying the negotiations, Biswajit Dhar argues that this ASEAN-led initiative can constitute the building block for a truly viable East Asian Community provided the parties break out from the straitjacket of trade liberalisation.
9-Jan-2017
South China Morning Post
Experts say the RCEP can now be the centrepiece of 21st century free trade, a title they previously bestowed on the TPP.
7-Jan-2017
Foreign Policy
In Trump’s chaos, Abe sees opportunity. With Trump’s leanings toward protectionism, the Japanese prime minister is now in a position to pick up the reins in helping to promote trade among the increasingly interwoven economies of Asia.
3-Jan-2017
International Policy Digest
States such as Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand and Philippines, which used to lean toward the United States (US), may now be seeking to find more favor with the Chinese.
2-Jan-2017
Don’t trade our lives away
The Duterte administration will look closely at the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), given its new policy of moving the country swiftly towards economic integration with its fellow-members in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
2-Jan-2017
The China Post
China plans to seal free trade agreements with 40 percent of the countries and regions along the Belt and Road Initiative in 2017
30-Dec-2016
Governance Now
Interview with Dr Peter Ghys, interim director, strategic information and evaluation, UNAIDS
