organization:asia-pacific economic cooperation

#TPP Nations Meet in Canada to Discuss Fate of Pact Without U.S. - Bloomberg
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Canada is hosting a round of exploratory negotiations on the future of the #Trans_Pacific_Partnership after the U.S. bowed out.

Senior trade officials from every remaining signatory country will convene the so-called #TPP-minus-one talks in Toronto on Tuesday and Wednesday. While ministers won’t attend, the event is expected to set the stage for an upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit of trade ministers in Vietnam.

This week’s talks are also the latest sign of Canada looking to pivot in part away from its biggest trading partner — coming amid escalating disputes with President Donald Trump’s administration over the North American Free Trade Agreement, softwood lumber and the dairy sector.

Un « aigle américain » brulé lors d’une manifestation contre l’APEC à Manille - YouTube
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Philippines : Lumads blast APEC, rap plan to convert 1 million hectares into palm oil plantations
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Farmers and indigenous people (IP) nationwide protested in front of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) on Wednesday to denounce the plan to convert one million hectares of land into palm oil plantations.

The protest, the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) said, is a prelude to bigger actions as the Aquino government prepares to host the 15th Leaders’ Summit of the Asia Pacific Cooperation (APEC) on November 18 and 19.

More than 100 Lumad farmers from the Manilakbayan contingent trooped to the DENR to oppose the planned conversion.

In Mindanao alone, more than one million hectares of land are being eyed as potential palm oil production areas.

Bohol and Palawan are also targeted for palm oil plantations expansion.

The activity will be highlighted by the people’s critique of the government’s Philippine Roadmap on the Palm Oil Industry for 2016-2023 and testimonies of farmers, agricultural workers, and Lumad affected by land grabbing and inhuman working and living conditions in oil palm plantations.

#terres c’est marrant, je croyais que les Phillipins avaient peu de terres agricoles et qu’ils fallait qu’ils se nourrissent de riz doré pour compenser le manque de vitamines et oligoéléments présents dans les fruits et légumes...

Le déclin accéléré des Etats-Unis en une seule photo | Olivier Demeulenaere – Regards sur l’économie
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Si Obama n’avait pas annulé sa participation au sommet de l’APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) en raison du shutdown, il figurerait très certainement au centre de la photo, quelque part entre Poutine et le président chinois… Oui mais voilà, le shutdown est passé par là et le secrétaire d’Etat John Kerry a été relégué au fond à droite…

#Etats-Unis
le secrétaire d’Etat #John_Kerry
#shutdown
#APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation)

Sanctionnez, il en restera toujours quelque chose.
►http://consortiumnews.com/2012/09/10/how-sanctions-become-baggage

How’s this for old baggage: one of the topics Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is discussing with the Russians while in Vladivostok for the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting is whether the United States will lift the 1974-vintage trade sanction known as the Jackson-Vanik amendment.

One of the coauthors of that legislation, Rep. Charles Vanik, left Congress in in 1981. The other coauthor, Sen. Henry “Scoop” Jackson, died in office in 1983. The Soviet Union, which was the obvious target of the legislation even though the law was worded in general terms, died over 20 years ago, although the sanctions have continued to apply to Russia as the successor state.

The original impetus for the legislation was opposition to restrictions the Soviets were placing on Jewish emigration in the 1970s. That situation changed long ago. Mikhail Gorbachev opened the doors for what would become large-scale emigration of Russian Jews in the 1990s. If the amendment has accomplished some other purpose related to human rights, it is hard to see what that is. The mark of a sanction that has succeeded is that it gets lifted.