The RCEP is a cooperation framework designed to safeguard ASEAN’s "centrality." Its objective – which is to promote regional integration by integrating five bilateral FTAs – will not be an easy task. The ...The RCEP is a cooperation framework designed to safeguard ASEAN’s "centrality." Its objective – which is to promote regional integration by integrating five bilateral FTAs – will not be an easy task. The task will be made even more difficult by the fact that ASEAN does not intend to deviate from its approach of "putting process over progress."展开更多
At present, China should continue to support ASEAN-led open-ended regional cooperation in Asia-Pacific, push RCEP to open in some areas of priority and try to avoid the unfavorable situation in which TPP prospers whil...At present, China should continue to support ASEAN-led open-ended regional cooperation in Asia-Pacific, push RCEP to open in some areas of priority and try to avoid the unfavorable situation in which TPP prospers while RCEP dwindles. In addition, China should face up to the positive side of the TPP negotiations. Even if China would not join TPP in the shorn term,China could not avoid such issue in the RCEP and other FTA negotiations in the future.展开更多
文摘The RCEP is a cooperation framework designed to safeguard ASEAN’s "centrality." Its objective – which is to promote regional integration by integrating five bilateral FTAs – will not be an easy task. The task will be made even more difficult by the fact that ASEAN does not intend to deviate from its approach of "putting process over progress."
文摘At present, China should continue to support ASEAN-led open-ended regional cooperation in Asia-Pacific, push RCEP to open in some areas of priority and try to avoid the unfavorable situation in which TPP prospers while RCEP dwindles. In addition, China should face up to the positive side of the TPP negotiations. Even if China would not join TPP in the shorn term,China could not avoid such issue in the RCEP and other FTA negotiations in the future.
