The Oriental Couchette

... mechanisms for settling investment disputes 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 influential self-serving players and integration-oriented countries, then we should not expect any serious movement in terms of more “liberal” topics and issues on the APEC agenda that affect a broader range of ...