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The signing of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) by 15 Asia-Pacific nations on November 15 can be seen as not only a triumph of China’s multilateral economic diplomacy but also having implications for the external economic relations of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. After eight years of negotiations that started from November 2012, 15 Asia-Pacific states signed the landmark trade agreement with the absence from the US and India. Leaders from the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea and 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) witnessed the signing of the...
