{"id":10718,"date":"2019-11-04T07:15:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T22:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2019\/nov\/04\/worlds-largest-trade-deal-rcep-faces-delay-as-india-pushes-back-against-china"},"modified":"2019-11-04T07:15:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T22:15:58","slug":"worlds-largest-trade-deal-rcep-faces-delay-as-india-pushes-back-against-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10718","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s largest trade deal RCEP faces delay as India pushes back against China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sixteen-nation Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership will cover half the planet\u2019s people<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s largest trade deal is unlikely to be signed this year, with a draft statement from south-east Asian leaders suggesting it will be delayed until 2020, despite China\u2019s desire to bring it into operation as soon as possible as a counterweight to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2019\/oct\/31\/us-trade-war-with-china-takes-its-toll-on-eurozone-economy\">its debilitating tariff war with the US<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 16-country Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership \u2013 known as the RCEP \u2013 would be the world\u2019s largest when operational, spanning India to New Zealand, including 30% of global GDP and half of the world\u2019s people.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2019\/nov\/04\/worlds-largest-trade-deal-rcep-faces-delay-as-india-pushes-back-against-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixteen-nation Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership will cover half the planet\u2019s peopleThe world\u2019s largest trade deal is unlikely to be signed this year, with a draft statement from south-east Asian leaders suggesting it will be delayed until 20&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[504,41,6,50,558,62,557,61,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asean-association-of-southeast-asian-nations","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-global-economy","category-india","category-international-trade","category-south-and-central-asia","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10719,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10718\/revisions\/10719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}