Abstract
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), employing both economic and political motives, constitutes an important component of the “return to Asia-Pacific” strategy of the United States. Containing China’s rise remains one of TPP’s undeniable objectives. The 2011 summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) members symbolized a stage of substantive talks TPP has entered. The stances of japan and other East Asian nations will decide the TPP’s development prospects to a large extent. For China, its exclusion from TPP not only means that it will be under the impact of “excludability effects” but it also means that the process of regional economic integration it has made unremitting efforts to advance in East Asia is likely to be reversed, a trend that will pose a major challenge to China in the process of its rise. Keywords:Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC); China; regional economic integration; trans-pacific partnership (TPP); United States
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