{"id":68673,"date":"2017-01-19T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=68673"},"modified":"2016-12-19T23:22:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T03:22:38","slug":"an-uncertain-future-apec-and-free-trade-in-the-asia-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=68673","title":{"rendered":"An Uncertain Future: APEC and Free Trade in the Asia Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, January 19  06:30pm<br \/>\nAsia Society<br \/>\n725 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/economics.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[68673]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68674\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/economics.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How will the changing political landscape of the U.S. government affect the future of trade and economic cooperation in the Asia-Pacific? As the Trump administration takes power, people around the globe are anticipating the impact of new and unconventional approaches to trade and economic policy in the world\u2019s largest economy. Join us for a high-level briefing on the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum, in which expert speakers will reflect on the outcomes of the 2016 APEC leaders meeting in Lima and discuss Vietnam\u2019s plans to host a successful APEC 2017 in an environment marked by significant uncertainty surrounding trade policy and political alliances. Without U.S. backing, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is no longer a pathway for integrating markets in the Asia Pacific. Will China take advantage of this leadership vacuum to advance its Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement? And what will become of APEC\u2019s goal of achieving a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific?<\/p>\n<p>To register visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/asiasociety.org\/new-york\/events\/uncertain-future-apec-and-free-trade-asia-pacific\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/asiasociety.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, January 19 06:30pm Asia Society 725 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68675,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68673\/revisions\/68675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}