When the TPP and One Belt, One Road meet (Patrick Mendis, Harvard University, Dániel Balázs,Tongji University, East Asia Forum)

After years of talks, negotiators concluded an agreement on the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in October 2015. Since China is excluded from the TPP, one would expect antagonism rather than symbiosis between the Washington-advocated trade package and Beijing’s One Belt, One Road (OBOR) strategy. But closer scrutiny suggests that the TPP and OBOR may be converging by design and destiny.

http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2016/04/26/when-the-tpp-and-one-belt-one-road-meet/