The Oriental Couchette

... meetings involving the leaders and high-ranking ministers of TPP-11 countries will be held on the sidelines of the upcoming APEC summit, though the experts do not express much optimism in this regard. Against this background, the RCEP should have got a second wind. But its prospects are also vague, to put it mildly. The deadline for negotiations has been ... ... and intellectual property rights. In other words, we should not expect any significant progress on the “big” issues on the APEC free trade agenda any time soon. If the issue is all but absent from the RCEP and the TPP, where there are some reasonably ...