... in February 2016 is one of the main achievements of US policy of promoting American 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 ...
... Manila at all, and perhaps he only agreed on condition that the hosts would not play up the successful U.S. integration project. To avoid antagonizing China, special attention was paid to discussing the prospects of creating the
Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP)
, one of the key initiatives of the Chinese chairmanship of APEC in 2014. This is what led to the launch in 2015 of the Collective Strategic Study on Issues Related to the Realization of the FTAAP. Unlike the very concrete TPP and RCEP projects, the FTAAP is particularly appealing for Russia because so far it does not impose any specific obligations. The current stage includes information exchange, which Russia has readily made available, as it has experience of integration ...
