Senior Lecturer in International Relations
1 Compared with Europe and North America, East Asia is a late comer in regional economic cooperation and China is one of the latest in the region. In May 2001, China became a member of the Bangkok Agreement, the first free trade area analogue the country joined. China has moved fast since then. It h...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.573.9005 http://www.waseda-giari.jp/sysimg/imgs/wp2008-E-9_Yang.pdf |
| Summary: | 1 Compared with Europe and North America, East Asia is a late comer in regional economic cooperation and China is one of the latest in the region. In May 2001, China became a member of the Bangkok Agreement, the first free trade area analogue the country joined. China has moved fast since then. It has (partially) completed free trade agreement (FTA) talks with the 10-member South East Asia Nations (ASEAN), Chile, Pakistan, and New Zealand and has signed a Closer Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) with Hong Kong and Macau. Beijing is also in FTA talks with Australia, Iceland, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC),1 Singapore and lately Peru. It has completed or started joint feasibility research for FTAs with a number of countries, including the Southern |
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