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Promise or Peril? The China-ASEAN Trade Relationship
UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies presents a colloquium with Dr. Walden Bello on the developing relationship between China and ASEAN.
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Colloquium with Dr. Walden Bello, Member of the House of Representatives of the Republic of the Philippines.
On Jan 1, 2010, what has been touted as the world's biggest trading area was inaugurated. The China ASEAN Free Trade Agreement mandates that tariffs be eventually reduced to zero for all commodities. CAFTA has elicited different responses from Southeast Asia, from optimism that it could lead to more prosperity to fears of Southeast Asia's agriculture and industry being wiped out.
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