China may seize this opportunity to relaunch the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), a free trade agreement it devised in response to Barack Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), an earlier attempt to contain China that Trump ditched. ..…
But the legacy of our flirtation with in the Western Pacific also includes much that is lamentable — Korea and Vietnam, for example, and now rivalry with China destined to lead we know not where.. ..…
China has insinuated into the heart of Western Pacific, leapfrogging the island chain. ..…
Pompeo also reportedly accused China of using 'predatory economics' and 'debt' to reach savage deals with Pacific Island and other nations. . ... Tongan Prime Minister Akilisi Pohiva has clarified that 'China has never claimed to collect the debts or take the assets from Tonga in..…
Australia, traditionally the in the South Pacific, has promised up to A$3 in grants and cheap loans to counter what Washington describes as China's payday loan diplomacy... ..…
Mathews with Xin Huang and comments by Mark Selden and Thomas Rawski, The Greening of China's Energy System Outpaces its Further Blackening A 2017 Update, with response from the authors, Asia-Pacific Journal, May 1, 2018. 36 See the testimony of Harry B. Lynch, Trump Backpedals on..…
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