This image made from a teleconference provided by the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) shows the leaders and trade ministers of 15 Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) count...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a group photo with other world leaders at the 3rd RCEP Summit in Bangkok, Thailand.
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From left, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Thailand Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha talk before a group photo at The Regional Comprehensive Eco...
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Farmers raise slogans during a protest against Center's decision to join Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) deal, at Amritsar-Delhi Highway. India is preparing a fi...
If India has to emerge as a global superpower, a $5 trillion economy, it has to take the leadership position to ink such partnerships in the near future.
The delay in firming up the RCEP during the three-day ASEAN summit in Bangkok had been attributed to India's demands on market access and tariff-related issues.
Earlier, the Gandhi scion had asserted that Make in India had become Buy from China, claiming the proposed free trade deal will flood the country with cheap goods, resulting in millions of job losses and crippling the economy.
The proposed free-trade agreement includes 10 member-countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and six of the bloc’s dialogue partners — China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand.