Ye Comments on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
Min Ye, Associate Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was quoted in a SupChina article discussing the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the largest free trade agreement in history.
In the article, titled “Asia-Pacific economic explainer: How the China-friendly RCEP arose after the U.S. abandoned TPP,” Ye comments on China’s interest in the RCEP and what drove them to join this trading bloc. Initially, China showed little interest in joining the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) led trade group. However, as Ye point out, China eventually began viewing the RCEP as a means to counteract growing United States influence in the Asia-Pacific through the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). According to Ye, China’s abrupt policy shift “was entirely due to TPP.”
The full article can be read on SupChina‘s website.
Min Ye is the author of Diasporas and Foreign Direct Investment in China and India (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and The Making of Northeast Asia (with Kent Calder, Stanford University Press, 2010). Her most recent book, titled The Belt Road and Beyond: State-Mobilized Globalization in China: 1998–2018 (Cambridge University Press 2020), explores the motivations and strategies behind China’s global economic expansion and considers the implications of the country’s status as a global power on both China and the world. Read more about Ye on her faculty profile.