Friday, March 20, 2015

CL Lim on Geopolitics in International Trade

Malaymail Online
Mayuri Mei Lin
20 March 2015
KUALA LUMPUR, March 20 ― Geopolitics often muddle already complex trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) but proper rules in place at a global level could see Asean grow economically and socially, financial analysts said today.
     In a debate titled “Regional Integration & Global Integration: Is there a conflict?”, analysts agreed that the politicking between nations often makes trade, be it regionally or globally, more difficult.
     “Today what hobbles the WTO is not the fact that we're discussing free trade agreements, it's geopolitics,” University of Hong Kong Lim Chin Leng said today, referring to the World Trade Organisation by its acronym WTO.
    Lim added however, that free trade agreements could help nudge nations to address geopolitical issues and to open their doors to more trade... Click here to read the full article.  

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