The RCEP is the world's largest free trade agreement by GDP of its members.
  • India’s commerce and industry minister ruled out the idea of joining the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, maintaining that it is not in the country’s interest to be part of a free trade agreement with China.
  • “It was not in our farmers’ interest, RCEP did not reflect the aspirations of our small and micro medium industries and sector, and in some form, was nothing but a free trade agreement with China,” Piyush Goyal said.
  • The RCEP is the world’s largest free trade agreement by GDP of its members.
  • @finitebanjoEnglish
    24•5 hours ago

    I realize how obvious this statement is to most people, but Xi has become incredibly arrogant and China as a whole is setting itself up for a massive economic downturn.

    • FuglyDuckEnglish
      2•47 minutes ago

      I’m still trying to figure out how evergrande hasn’t collapsed into the cesspit

    • @[email protected]English
      2•54 minutes ago

      I don’t necessarily disagree, but journalists have been printing articles that the downfall of China is right around the corner since the 90’s. Maybe I’m extrapolating your statement a little far though.

      • @finitebanjoEnglish
        1•31 minutes ago

        TBF leading up to the late 90s was unprecedented growth and development in China. They went from over 8 in 10 people in extreme poverty to less than 2 in 10 from the end of WWII to the late 1980s.

        So things certainly did slow down for them after the western world began cutting trade ties with them in response to Tiannanmen Square