HONG KONG (China Daily/Asia News Network): Multiple facets are coming into play within the emerging East Asian and Pacific nations trading bloc on the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region’s doorstep, not just the bloc’s central principle of lowering tariffs to importers, exporters, and economic sectors to achieve gradual trade liberalization over two decades.
Paths to diverse areas of cooperation are opening up for Hong Kong, an important global financial center of the Chinese mainland.
