Li said China would “work with all relevant parties to expedite” negotiations on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), showcased to be a free trade deal that will encompass more than a third of the world’s GDP.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-a...-idUSKCN1NH07B
The pact includes 16 countries, including ASEAN nations, Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea, but not the United States.
Regional diplomats said substantial work had been done on the trade deal, but it was not likely to be fully concluded until next year.
“During the summit, the leaders would express their commitment to conclude the negotiations, because this is very important for the region especially in view of rising trade tensions,” Junever Mahilum-West, a senior official in the Philippines foreign ministry, told reporters last week.
The draft of a communique to be issued by RCEP nations later in the week, which was reviewed by Reuters, said the group would instruct “ministers and negotiators to work toward the full conclusion of the RCEP negotiations in 2019”.
Earlier, in remarks at a business summit on Monday ahead of this week’s meetings, Singapore’s Lee said: “ASEAN has great potential, but fully realizing it depends on whether we choose to become more integrated, and work resolutely toward this goal in a world where multilateralism is fraying under political pressures”.
Lee has previously warned that the U.S.-China trade war could have a “big, negative impact” on Singapore, and the city-state’s central bank has warned it could soon drag on the economy.
Also on Monday, the ten-member ASEAN group reached its first ever deal on e-commerce aimed at helping boost cross-border transactions in the region.
Artists and intellectuals across Europe are calling for the founding of a continentwide republic to replace its many nation states.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.f952c8685af4
Activists planned to proclaim a “European Republic” in dozens of cities at 4 p.m. (1500 GMT) Saturday, almost exactly 100 years after the end of World War I.
The event is being organized by a group calling itself the European Balcony Project. Its listed supporters include political scientists, philosophers and writers such as Austrian literature Nobel prize laureate Elfriede Jelinek.
A manifesto on the group’s website declares that “the sovereignty of states is hereby replaced by the sovereignty of citizens.”
Li said China would “work with all relevant parties to expedite” negotiations on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), showcased to be a free trade deal that will encompass more than a third of the world’s GDP.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-a...-idUSKCN1NH07B
The pact includes 16 countries, including ASEAN nations, Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea, but not the United States.
Regional diplomats said substantial work had been done on the trade deal, but it was not likely to be fully concluded until next year.
“During the summit, the leaders would express their commitment to conclude the negotiations, because this is very important for the region especially in view of rising trade tensions,” Junever Mahilum-West, a senior official in the Philippines foreign ministry, told reporters last week.
The draft of a communique to be issued by RCEP nations later in the week, which was reviewed by Reuters, said the group would instruct “ministers and negotiators to work toward the full conclusion of the RCEP negotiations in 2019”.
Earlier, in remarks at a business summit on Monday ahead of this week’s meetings, Singapore’s Lee said: “ASEAN has great potential, but fully realizing it depends on whether we choose to become more integrated, and work resolutely toward this goal in a world where multilateralism is fraying under political pressures”.
Lee has previously warned that the U.S.-China trade war could have a “big, negative impact” on Singapore, and the city-state’s central bank has warned it could soon drag on the economy.
Also on Monday, the ten-member ASEAN group reached its first ever deal on e-commerce aimed at helping boost cross-border transactions in the region.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), or Shanghai Pact, is a Eurasian political, economic, and security alliance, the creation of which was announced on 15 June 2001 in Shanghai, China by the leaders of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistanhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangh...n_Organisation
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the organisation has expanded its membership to eight countries when India and Pakistan joined SCO as full members on 9 June 2017
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The SCO is widely regarded as the "alliance of East", due to its growing centrality in Asia-Pacific, and has been the primary security pillar of the region. Being the world's forefront regional organisation in economic power and political influence, and one of the world's strongest military alliances, it is also the largest regional organisation in the world in terms of geographical coverage and population, covering three-fifths of the Eurasian continent and nearly half of the human population. At present, the SCO is one of the world's most powerful and influential organisations
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), or Shanghai Pact, is a Eurasian political, economic, and security alliance, the creation of which was announced on 15 June 2001 in Shanghai, China by the leaders of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistanhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangh...n_Organisation
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the organisation has expanded its membership to eight countries when India and Pakistan joined SCO as full members on 9 June 2017
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The SCO is widely regarded as the "alliance of East", due to its growing centrality in Asia-Pacific, and has been the primary security pillar of the region. Being the world's forefront regional organisation in economic power and political influence, and one of the world's strongest military alliances, it is also the largest regional organisation in the world in terms of geographical coverage and population, covering three-fifths of the Eurasian continent and nearly half of the human population. At present, the SCO is one of the world's most powerful and influential organisations
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