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The Asia-Pacific: More Stable than Anyone Thinks

... with the WTO, the idea is to make membership in the TPP indispensable and only then to invite China and Russia to join. China is using its economic leverage to promote an alternative to the TPP that it calls the Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP). It has had little success. As the host of the November 2014 APEC summit, China was able to push through an agreement to conduct a two-year study of the potential for an FTAAP, in effect delaying any formal negotiations until 2017 at the earliest. Even this minor opening faced strenuous US opposition . American dominance ...

24.03.2015

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Great Minds Think Alike

... 2014 APEC Summit revealed strategic aspirations of all major regional players. Countries push and bid on different initiatives of regional free trade integration, thus creating a massive stumbling block – a choice between American TPP and Chinese FTAAP. RIAC team has asked experts from China and Singapore to comment on the recent summit and give their expert opinion. Xu Wenhong Dr. of Science, Research Fellow from the Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Science, Visiting Scholar ...

17.11.2014

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In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?

U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements	33 (31%)
U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity	30 (28%)
U.S. wants to dissolve Russia	24 (22%)
U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China	21 (19%)