{"id":10752,"date":"2019-11-05T07:32:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T22:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/05\/australia-to-join-major-asia-pacific-trade-deal-rcep-but-india-holds-out"},"modified":"2019-11-05T07:32:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T22:32:39","slug":"australia-to-join-major-asia-pacific-trade-deal-rcep-but-india-holds-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10752","title":{"rendered":"Australia to join major Asia-Pacific trade deal RCEP but India holds out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Morrison says 15-country Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership would be \u2018bigger and better\u2019 with India in it<\/p>\n<p>Australia will sign on to a major free-trade deal involving 15 countries from the Asia-Pacific region, albeit one diminished by India\u2019s decision not to join.<\/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\">At the East Asia Summit in Bangkok<\/a>, 15 of the 16 participants agreed to sign up to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), likely in February next year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/05\/australia-to-join-major-asia-pacific-trade-deal-rcep-but-india-holds-out\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Morrison says 15-country Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership would be \u2018bigger and better\u2019 with India in itAustralia will sign on to a major free-trade deal involving 15 countries from the Asia-Pacific region, albeit one diminished by Indi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":408,"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":[41,43,536,645,324,6,50,534,558,62,557,56,386,61,535],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-economy","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-politics","category-business","category-china","category-coalition","category-global-economy","category-india","category-international-trade","category-new-zealand","category-scott-morrison","category-south-and-central-asia","category-south-china-sea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10752","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\/408"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10753,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10752\/revisions\/10753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}