EAF editors

The summits provide an opportunity for leaders to forge relationships, sort out differences and progress shared interests
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Asia’s prosperity and political stability depends critically on its integration into the global economy through the rules-based trading system
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The CPTPP, even if it expands membership to include other middle powers in East Asia, is not systemically important enough to do the job
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Clear-headed understanding of the international economic and political frameworks that serve best to negotiate and mediate the mutual benefits of engagement with China and other powerful friends and allies is what’s needed now.
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The China–Japan relationship is the most important relationship in Asia. It also has a troubled history.
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The South China Sea dispute has many dimensions, including rival sovereignty claims, competition for access to fisheries and other sea-bed resources
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Bilateral trade deals can’t replicate the gains from regional and multilateral agreement, and they will unhelpfully cut across global and regional value chains.
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The most widely used internet finance service is third-party payments, a market dominated by two players, AliPay and WeChatPay, which at the end of 2015 had more than 270 million and 200 million active users respectively.
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There has, naturally, been considerable angst around the Asia Pacific about the outcome of the election and what it will portend for US policy in the region
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