Vladimir Terehov
What Could Taiwan’s Application to Join the CPTPP Mean?
Once again we have an excuse to use the phrase “the NEO did not have time...”. This time in connection with the official appeal to the regional association Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP, which was made on September 17 this year by the leadership of the PRC. Just one week later...
On the Second Summit of the Quad Participants
On September 24, the second summit of the Quad leaders, including Australia, India, Japan and the United States, was held in Washington. It is important to note that, unlike the first summit held six months earlier, the event at hand was a live face-to-face meeting. The NEO has been observing this project fairly regularly since it was updated (a year and a half ago) after fifteen years in a state...
China is Joining the CPTTP: What this Means for the Situation in the Indo-Pacific Region
On 17th September 2021, Xinhua News Agency of the People’s Republic of China reported that on the previous day the country’s Minister of Commerce, Wang Wentao, had sent a formal request to join the regional alliance of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement...
