HEADLINES: This week's Asia Briefing weekly news takes in the keynote speeches made by Russian President Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Indian Prime Minister Modi at this year's Far Eastern Economic Forum, which has just concluded in Vladivostok. This annual, yet important event is usually ignored by Western media, yet it outlines the development plans and integration of Russia’s Asian regions into the North-Eastern Asian economies of China, Japan, and South Korea. This is especially pertinent given the upcoming RCEP East Asia free trade agreement. We also look at Hong Kong’s plans to join RCEP, suggestions that ASEAN joins an FTA with the Eurasian Economic Union and many other regional developments.
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