... 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 ... ... mega-regional formats of economic integration, the APEC relies on existing negotiation formats – the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). The problem is that neither of these formats is in particularly good ...
... global direct investments in 2014 was 28.1%, and 42.8% in exporting direct investments. The total population of all TPP countries exceeds 810 million people.
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. Forty-two free trade agreements currently exist among TPP members.
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. The share of the TPP countries in Russia’s trade volume is no more than 10 % (mostly accounted for by Japan and the US), the trade structure and the TPP preferences do not promise any significant changes for the Russian goods. Estimates show that with the TPP coming into force, ...
... nothing to improve relations. Russian-Chinese relations are not marred by such ideological divergences, which simplifies them considerably.
Russia's economy is not comparable to China's one. Just like Russia’s political leverage, however, the Russian economy is big enough to constitute an important factor in how China shapes its relations with the US and its allies. Efforts to form a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) run counter to China’s interests in a number of ways. In America, meanwhile, discontent with China’s economic policy is growing, stoked in recent months by unilateral moves to devalue the Yuan, which sent tremors coursing through the ...
... initiative did not propose any quantative indicators as a basis for comparison. Such indicators (
Key Accountability Areas)
were proposed in 2015 and spelled out in a supplement to the leaders’ declaration.
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Will the TPP rupture Asia Pacific
For Russia, promotion of economic growth and sustainable development are far more relevant and interesting themes than the APEC integration agenda, to which Russia has little to contribute, and about which it can hardly boast. The APEC partners gave a cool ...
Interview with Natalya Stapran, Alexander Gabuyev, Sergey Luzyanin and Won Dong Cho
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal was sealed on 5 October 2015. Moscow’s stance on the TPP has not been defined yet.
The Russian International Affairs Council has asked
Natalya Stapran
, Associate Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia;
Alexander Gabuyev
, ...
... new markets. However, the available opportunities seem limited since the West remains deeply reluctant to view Russia as an equal trading partner, while new markets can only be found in those countries that are outside these global agreements.
Does Russia have any chance for development outside TPP and TTIP limits? No clear-cut answer is apparent in the immediate term. As for the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) and BRICS, their cooperation potential remains great, but still has to prove its economic worth.
Importantly, U.S. trade with China (USD ...
... It also includes highly controversial provisions on the protection of
intellectual property
and the subjugation of national laws to
transnational tribunals
.
Notably absent from negotiations over the TPP are two major Asia-Pacific powers: China and Russia. The TPP will later be presented to China and Russia as a fait accompli with basic rules already set by the United States and its allies. The same trick was played against China and Russia in the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO). As with the ...
