Trans-Pacific Partnership To Hurt Pharmaceutical Innovation And Drive Prices...
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a multi-national trade agreement now being considered by 12 countries. In an insightful commentary in Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy (RSAP), the...
View ArticleInterpreting China’s Economic Challenge – Analysis
Low GDP growth numbers and the tumbling Shanghai Composite are not enough to judge China’s economic management strategy. It is the long-term, structural, and geoeconomic challenges that will determine...
View ArticleMalaysia’s Two Megadeaths In A Week – OpEd
We died twice this week. First we agreed to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPA), approved at the level of ‘the Malaysian people’, taxed but without feeling a full representation. In...
View ArticleA Window Of Opportunity For Reforms In Vietnam – Analysis
Vietnam’s cautious, conservative leader may be authoritarian, but cannot ignore public opinion on US or China. By Dien Luong* As the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam prepared for its five-year...
View ArticlePresident Obama At Opening Session Of US-ASEAN Summit – Speech
By US President Barack Obama (Sunnylands Center, The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands Rancho Mirage, California) — Good afternoon, everyone. It is my privilege to welcome you to this landmark gathering...
View ArticleThe Trans-Pacific Partnership And The Revitalisation Of Japanese Economy –...
A series of mega-regional free trade agreements are currently being negotiated. This column argues that Japan is in a unique position to be able to negotiate with due regard for consistency among these...
View ArticleShutting Out China: The US-ASEAN Ploy – OpEd
The move is in the tradition of grand power politics. Officially, it has been sweetened as something more, a goodwill gesture by Washington that is designed to rope in and keep partners in the...
View ArticleWikiLeaks Claims NSA Spied On Ban Ki-Moon, Other World Leaders For US Oil...
Wikileaks published a new trove of top secret documents revealing that the NSA spied on the private meetings of major world leaders, including UN chief Ban Ki-Moon, German chancellor Merkel, as well as...
View ArticleThe Trans-Pacific Partnership And Team Pfizer – OpEd
Last month the Peterson Institute for International Economics released a new study that projected the impact of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on the U.S. economy. The study projected that when...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Attacks Hillary Clinton Over Wall Street Ties, Trade
Bernie Sanders has attacked Hillary Clinton over her record with corporate America and “disastrous trade agreements” destructive to the US economy, as well as multibillion bailouts that robbed the...
View ArticleUS Rebalancing: ASEAN And America’s Maritime Allies – Analysis
By William T. Tow* As the United States prepares to elect a new president in November 2016, President Obama’s ‘pivot’ or ‘rebalancing’ strategy formally introduced in 2011 and directed toward the...
View ArticleThe New Truth About Free Trade – OpEd
I used to believe in trade agreements. That was before the wages of most Americans stagnated and a relative few at the top captured just about all the economic gains. The old-style trade agreements of...
View ArticleAre Trade Deals Good For America? – OpEd
Both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are blaming free-trade deals for the decline of working-class jobs and incomes. Are they right? Clearly, America has lost a significant number of factory jobs over...
View ArticleSuu Kyi And The India-China Predicament – Analysis
By Mihir Bhonsale* The election of Htin Kyaw, a trusted aide of NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi, as the president has put Myanmar firmly on the path of a democratic transition. As Myanmar settles down to a...
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TPP Versus RCEP: What Are The Odds For Thailand? – Analysis
With increasing interconnectedness and interdependence in this ‘flat’ world, there has been a renewed focus on multilateral trade agreements globally. In the Pacific region, this focus has been further...
View ArticleVietnam’s New Leadership And Its Prospects For Relations With China – Analysis
On April 7, 2016, Vietnam’s leadership transition was completed when the National Assembly elected Nguyen Xuan Phuc as the new Prime Minister, replacing Nguyen Tan Dung, whom the National Assembly had...
View ArticleDismantling The geopolitical Bretton Woods – Analysis
Statements by Donald Trump, the business magnate turned serious contender for the Oval Office, assert that he wants “good” political and economic deals for the U.S. – even if it means dismantling...
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US-ASEAN Connect Holds Promise Of Deepening Relations – Analysis
By Tham Siew Yean* Economic cooperation between the US and ASEAN has been advancing steadily since the former became a Dialog Partner in 1977. A Trade and Investment Agreement (TIFA) was inked in 2006...
View ArticleMemorandum To Hillary Clinton And Donald Trump – OpEd
How the next US president can rescue global trade and resuscitate the American workforce. By Jeffrey E. Garten* I’m writing to you both as presumptive presidential candidates for America’s two major...
View ArticleTPP, OBOR And ASEAN: Where Will They Lead To? – Analysis
In projecting different conceptions of regional integration the Trans-Pacific Partnership and China’s “One Belt, One Road” initiatives compete not just with one another but also potentially challenge...
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