Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, left, and Commerce Minister Zhong Shan at the signing ceremony of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement in Beijing last year. Photo: Xinhua Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, left, and Commerce Minister Zhong Shan at the signing ceremony of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement in Beijing last year. Photo: Xinhua
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, left, and Commerce Minister Zhong Shan at the signing ceremony of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement in Beijing last year. Photo: Xinhua
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World’s biggest free-trade deal has to be welcomed

  • The ratification of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership is welcome in a world conflicted by fragmentation, thanks to Donald Trump’s unilateralism and isolationism, and the politics and geography of the pandemic

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Updated: 12:33am, 2 May, 2021

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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, left, and Commerce Minister Zhong Shan at the signing ceremony of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement in Beijing last year. Photo: Xinhua Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, left, and Commerce Minister Zhong Shan at the signing ceremony of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement in Beijing last year. Photo: Xinhua
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, left, and Commerce Minister Zhong Shan at the signing ceremony of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement in Beijing last year. Photo: Xinhua
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