Articles

APEC More of a Talking Shop than a Meaningful Regional Forum

The summit of the 21 members Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation or APEC hosted and chaired by Malaysia this year on 20 November was held in the virtual mode because of the coronavirus pandemic. In response to the growing interdependence of Asia-Pacifi....

December 02, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Economic Studies , Article , ASEAN , Donald Trump , Vietnam , Summit , RCEP , COVID-19 , Pandemic , Multilateralism , TPP , Hanoi , APEC , CATPP , Kuala Lumpur , Barack Obama , free trade , Pacific Islands Secretariat

Will RCEP Miss India?

Amb Gurjit Singh Article

Vietnam has taken over from Thailand as the Chair of ASEAN in 2020. Its theme at its opening summit in June is ‘Cohesive and Responsive ASEAN’¹. Thailand is the country coordinator for India and will be followed by Singapore from 2021 ....

August 31, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , India , China , ASEAN , Australia , Japan , RCEP , Covid , TPP , regional value chains , CEPAs , FTAs

COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 4, 2020

Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF COVID-19 Daily Scan

Economic

Emerging market currencies mark biggest falls in 5 years

The MSCI Emerging Market Currency Index, which tracks overall movements of emerging market currencies, dropped 6% in the January-March period this year; the ste....

May 04, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Taiwan , Turkey , RCEP , COVID-19 , COVID-19 Daily Scan , Daily scan , TPP , Inflation , Stock Market listing , Global Tourism , Wuhan Lab , Dollar