The paper undertakes a preliminary economic analysis of the recently proposed East Asian Economic Community. The proposal envisages that the core of the Economic Community would include the ten member countries of the ASEAN free trade area (AFTA) and the three North-East Asian economies, namely, Japan, Korea, and China. The Community is also expected to include subsidiary institutions relating ...

A country’s economic dependence on its trade with various other countries is often expressed in terms of values and shares. vulnerability to coercion by the which it trades similarly such terms. Using recent issues relating Australia’s coal China as an example, we propose a better framework for assessing coercive instruments. We argue that capacity given export fund real consumption superior in...

The global supply chain crisis caused by COVID-19 and the trend of “anti-globalization” continuously impact international trade. As one central processing centers primary products, China’s forest product enterprises import raw materials export manufactured which are vulnerable to worldwide crisis. This article reviews research on influence pandemic Sino–US trade war wooden products forestry tha...

The current research aims to contribute to the debate on whether China competes with its neighbouring economies for inward foreign direct investment (FDI). Our results indicate that China has not diverted inward FDI from other Asian economies as a whole. If we view FDI inflows in the region as part of systemic globalization strategies adopted by transnational corporations, China may in fact hav...

from the perspective of the states that their foreign policy is based on geo-economy, the economy is the most important mechanism of influence in target areas. therefore, with the strengthening of trade relations would be in an appropriate level to increase the mutual relations.  after the independence of central eurasian states, geographical - political events of central eurasia led to the cre...

Decision making in the WTO has become ever more difficult as the number of members increases and the range of issues tackled broadens. This paper looks at reasons why aspects of decision-making might be changed and discusses a number of potential pitfalls that change would have to avoid, such as a dilution of commitments and fragmentation of the multilateral trading system. It then takes a deta...