Muratshina Xenia

ASEAN countries and US-Japan Trans-Pacific Partnership initiative

ЮГО-ВОСТОЧНАЯ АЗИЯ: АКТУАЛЬНЫЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ РАЗВИТИЯ, 2017, №34, 75-89

 
Annotation: The paper analyses the process of joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership by four Southeast Asian states – Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore. The author examines the question of what motivated the SEA countries to join TTP, what attitude they demonstrated towards the ratification of the agreement and how non-aligned to TTP ASEAN countries reacted to it as well. Currently, after US withdrawal from the agreement, made by the new president D. Trump, it is Japan who stands firmly for the further development of TTP, however, the perspectives of the agreement are quite vague.

Keywords: Trans-Pacific Partnership, Southeast Asia, ASEAN, Japan, the USA, China