ISDS Case Map
China
Jack Ma, a Chinese web entrepreneur sometimes called his country's "Bill Gates", was Wednesday jeered by angry Peruvian textile workers who saw him as the negative personification of a China-Peru free trade agreement.
China and Peru signed a free trade agreement today (Wednesday) that will pave the way for further cooperation between the two countries and broaden China's influence in Latin America.
China and Costa Rica will launch free trade talks in January and hope to seal a deal by 2010, Chinese President Hu Jintao said Monday during his first visit to a Central American country.
Hu Jintao and scores of business people sweep through Latin America to reinforce Beijing's economic power in the region
Kevin Rudd said he could not set a deadline for the completion of an FTA with China, but that the depth of the financial crisis had hardened their mutual determination to seal a deal.
China and Peru are poised to sign a free trade agreement when the Chinese president visits Latin America this month, a sign of the growing ties between the Asian economic giant and the resource-rich countries whose exports it needs.
Although it is a member of the developing nations or what is known as the Global South, China's emergence as an economic superpower has generated mixed reactions from its Asian neighbours.
Pakistan has so far signed three Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), of which trade balance with two countries is in negative while the remaining one shows marginal growth.
Islamabad-Pakistan and China will hold final talks in December to seal Free Trade Agreement on services sectors.
China and Singapore on Thursday signed a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) ahead of the seventh Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) to be held in Beijing on October 24-25.
