Tag: Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership

Countering China has become Washington's open scheme.

The U.S. does not appear ready to accept a multipolar world, still believing that its place as a global leader is as it was after 1945.

Two strategic options lie before the United States: The first is the well-worn path of win-lose, zero-sum games, and the second is a new path of cooperation and shared development.

As long as Biden upholds Trump’s confrontational approach, the phase one accord will be fundamentally unworkable, and further progress toward a mutually beneficial trade relationship will be all but impossible. Bilateral trade could even collapse.

Beijing has seriously strengthened its position in East Asia ...to such an extent that it is now time to talk about regional isolation of the U.S, not China.

Only Asian economic integration that counters unification can ensure that 2021 will be the start of the Asian century.

China, in fact, has written the rules.

During Biden’s presidency, the Asia-Pacific strategy and an East Asian version of NATO will become vital links in the free world’s global deployments.

Protectionism at home and open market economy elsewhere — this is, in a nutshell, China’s globalization model.

The international credibility of the U.S., both commercial and diplomatic, is at a nadir.

This new chapter in world trade is a first challenge for the future Biden administration.

While the pact may be viewed positively by Beijing, it is not an attempt to exclude the U.S. It is in keeping with Asean’s long-term commitment to open regionalism and regional integration.