ISDS Case Map
Asia
The US - China trade dispute has disrupted trade and investment flows, stifling global and regional trade growth.
Today the EU looks to be perfectly happy to expand trade with authoritarian regimes with appalling human rights records when the economic gains are sufficiently large.
China has been receiving flak for its conditional investments and loans that are resulting in land and resource grabbing in Asia and Africa.
“We call on our governments to either address the real reasons why ISDS is fundamentally flawed or to abandon its ‘reform’ agenda that is designed to reinforce and re-legitimise a self-serving investment dispute system.”
Cross-regional mega-FTAs are now being preferred over bilateral and plurilateral trade agreements as imperialist powers compete for cheap labor, sources of raw materials, and markets.
Cambodian officials pleaded last week with representatives of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) to include more Cambodian products into the bloc’s joint tariff scheme during a high level diplomatic meeting in Moscow.
The revived TPP 11 operates as a significant alternative to China’s approach, embodied in the Belt and Road Initiative.
India has joined hands with Japan and United States to build infrastructure for promoting connectivity in Indo-Pacific region, ostensibly to counter the Belt and Road initiative of China.
Indonesia set to be crucial battleground for negotiations
