Author: Yizhe (Daniel) Xie, Waseda University
Global trade needs a win to fend off rising tides of protectionism and anti-globalisation. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) offers the best ammunition to achieve this. Read more…
Economics, Politics and Public Policy in East Asia and the Pacific
Southeast Asia matters too
Author: John Blaxland, ANU
Australia needs to look beyond great powers like China and holistically engage with its immediate neighbours in Southeast Asia. This means its approach to China, ‘thinking big — strategically and for the long term’ must extend to Southeast Asia, with all sectors of Australian society engaging. Read more…
Assessing the ASEAN Economic Community
Authors: Somkiat Tangkitvanich and Saowaruj Rattanakhamfu, TDRI
East Asia continues to sustain a high level of economic integration, yet a significant proportion of intraregional trade is still uncovered by agreements to guard against current and possible future protectionism. Without multilateral movement under the World Trade Organization, further regional integration can proceed only through agreements that reduce trade barriers within the region. Read more…
India’s Asian integration strategy
Author: Dhiraj Nayyar, NITI Aayog
The Indian economy is experiencing rapid growth of between 7 and 8 per cent a year. To sustain that growth rate and for India to achieve its development potential, it must open up its economy and have a strong export sector. Read more…
Asia and the tide against globalisation
Author: Editors, East Asia Forum
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is dead; the largest free-trade zone in the world, the European Union, has splintered; and the global economy is on the way to notching up a decade of sub-par growth in trade and output following the global financial crisis.
The institutions behind East Asia’s transformation
Author: Ponciano Intal Jr, ERIA
One remarkable development in East Asia over the past three decades is the emergence of a regional architecture — a coherent network of institutions that work together for prosperity and stability — that has revolved around small and middleweight countries with support from the Pacific’s big powers. Read more…
How to manage geopolitical instability in East Asia
Author: Hitoshi Tanaka, JCIE
East Asia and the world are facing uncertain times. The balance of regional power is shifting as emerging market economies such as China are benefiting from globalisation and are continuing to rise. Read more…