Given the keen interest of some partners even from unfriendly countries in developing cooperation with Russia, formats similar to the Summit could be successful
Freedom to business
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit will be held on November 18-19, 2022 in Thailand amid unprecedented tensions in the international arena caused by the confrontation between Russia and NATO, the escalation in the Taiwan Strait and mounting instability on the Korean Peninsula....
... a hallmark of the association—has been somewhat compromised
In 2022, three ASEAN nations assumed the chairmanship of significant regional and global dialogue structures. For the first time in the history, G20 was chaired by Indonesia, while the APEC chairmanship was taken on by Thailand, and ASEAN’s chairmanship went to Cambodia. The year 2022 was expected to pass under the sign of the ASEAN leadership, with paths to an effective post-COVID recovery identified, especially since the positive ...
... Putin represented Russia at the 3
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Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) – Russian Federation Summit on Strategic Partnership. Two days later, in Port Moresby, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev attended the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit that had previously enjoyed priority attention of the President of the Russian Federation compared to other regional mechanisms.
Russia has stepped up its participation in multilateral mechanisms in the Asia Pacific at a time when contradictions ...
There is still a lot we do not know about how and why the APEC Summit just ended in Port Moresby was such a diplomatic disaster, from which APEC may not readily recover anytime soon.
China’s President Xi had been the first leader to accept the 2016 invitation to attend the 2018 APEC meeting in Port Moresby,...
The APEC Summit in Vietnam may be remembered for a number of reasons, although not necessarily for anything related to the APEC itself
On November 6–11, the city of Da Nang in central Vietnam will host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic ...
... multinational companies interests in the Asia-Pacific Region (APR). Sources close to the White House claim that more than 600 US corporations were involved in the text drafting and preliminary negotiations with partner countries. All TPP countries are APEC economies. Australia, Canada, Mexico, the United States and Japan are G20 member-states.
It is important to note that none of the provisions in the TPP agreement contradicts the principles of the World Trade Organization (WTO). However, TPP launches ...
The APEC Economic Leaders’ Declaration
signed on November 18, 2015 highlighted the shift of the Forum’s focus towards domestic economic development and qualitative growth, putting an end to the five-year period of geopolitical and economic heavyweights....
... the Asia-Pacific. Another point that is less obvious is how Russia and its partners should respond. Naturally, we live in a differentiated world from the perspective of economic institutions: the WTO is eroding; the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is being deformed. I believe the Trans-Pacific Partnership will become a direct threat for the APEC that is losing its function of the principal bloc in the Asia-Pacific, which coordinates integration and convergence, decreases in tariffs and rates,...
... to engage in economic activity thousands of kilometres away - something that was previously inviable due to its costliness. This in turn leads to an increase in productivity and competitiveness of national economies.
Drawing on the experience of the APEC Forum in terms of business mobility, the BRICS Business Council is seriously considering the creation of the BRICS Business Travel Card (similar to the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Business Travel Card). An agreement on reciprocal visa ...
On 24 May 2015, the meeting of APEC trade ministers in the Philippines concluded – one of the key points of APEC’s annual programme. Trade ministers traditionally meet in the middle of the year to discuss ways to stimulate, facilitate and liberalise trade and investment ...
