Now that Asia has stitched together the world’s biggest trading bloc, United States financial and tech firms ought to be more than a little worried.
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP, will bind the 10 economies of South-East Asia with China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, creating a prototype of what my colleague David Fickling describes as "a sort of Pax Sinica”, a Beijing-led global order.
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