Regional comprehensive economic partnership

After a few years of stasis, Beijing has begun escalating its intrusions over the Senkaku Islands, the heart of a Sino-Japanese sovereignty dispute. Arguably, the hardline it took on Indian requests for import safeguards was ultimately an attempt to... read more

The world is moving towards high-quality free trade deals, and India must follow that path too read more

Work on making both industry and economy more competitive read more

PM Modi is in Thailand on a three-day visit during which he will participate in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), East Asia, and Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) summits. read more

Delhi will have to sign the trade pact but must zealously guard its interests read more

Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Tuesday said he has communicated to his commerce counterpart to protect the farmers’ interest in the proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade agreement whose negotiations are in the... read more

The Indian industry has raised concerns over the presence of China in the grouping with which India has a huge trade. read more

According to Sudhanshu Pandey, Additional Secretary with the Commerce Ministry, Prime Minister Modi also called for a balanced and mutually beneficial RCEP pact. read more

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which aims to create the world’s largest free trade area, will be in focus when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Singapore during November 14-15 for the East Asia Summit and associated meeti... read more

India cannot sustain an expanding political and security role in the Indo-Pacific with a shrinking economic role read more