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, extended by the Chairman, PNG Prime Minister Peter O’Neill. At that time, the focus of Chinese interest was thought to be ...
... (2) deepening regional integration; (3) developing the competitiveness of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises; and (4) food security and adapting agriculture to climate change.
Ivan Timofeev:
What is the Difference between Sanctions against China and Sanctions against Russia?
The most important issue in terms of the APEC’s responsibilities is, of course, the formation of the Asia-Pacific Free Trade Area. Against the background of today’s abundance of mega-regional formats of economic integration, the APEC relies on existing negotiation formats – the Trans-Pacific ...
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Experts and politicians are aware that the TPP is an American integration project within the Asia-Pacific.
Unfortunately, Russia and China are not APP members, which will encourage them to increase their presence in the APEC. We will be watching the APEC and the APP compete. The Russia–China link will mold, offer preferences, and promise loans to medium and weak countries, and the U.S. will be doing the same. We will thus have a sort of regional geoeconomic “bipolarity.”
The TPP project will not add stability and further ...