Sunday, November 24, 2019

Modi’s Historic Blunder in Rejecting RCEP

This article caught me off guard! RCEP? I had no idea what the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership is about even though it was launched in 2012 at an ASEAN conference.

Unfortunately, the article below does not present the reasons very well or at all why Prime Minister Modi chose to leave RCEP. The article is very one sided!

According to Wikipedia Modi pulled out, because India fears to be flooded with cheap Chinese products. Given the history of China's mercantilist trade policies, this fear cannot be easily dismissed.

Modi’s Historic Blunder in Rejecting RCEP - Spontaneous Order: India is out of both RCEP and the 11-member TPP; the two agreements that will define the future of international trade in the 21st century.

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