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What are some positive impacts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership?
- November 2015
- Members Access
Australia’s need for energy resources from Brunei will open up markets for Australian products in Canada, Mexico and Vietnam. However, since Australia’s main exports are mining and energy industries, the competition for these industries s...
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What makes Singapore?s position as a member of the Trans-Pacific Partnership dif...
- November 2015
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Singapore is unique in that compared to other members of the TPP the country has both investments across Asia and a large services industry. The country is very familiar with FTAs, with an existing highly beneficial agreement with the United States a...
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Why is Vietnam the major beneficiary member of the Trans-Pacific Partnership?
- November 2015
- Members Access
This partnership will open up significant markets for Vietnamese manufactured goods, especially in North America. Although Vietnam has serious concerns over the balance of trade it has with China, it seems that this partnership will help Vietnam&rsqu...
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What is the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and how is that g...
- November 2015
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The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership includes all ten ASEAN countries and in addition, six countries that ASEAN has FTAs with; Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea. The concept of this partnership was given a mandate...
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What are Vietnam?s top manufacturing industries?
- October 2015
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Textile and garments industries are considered as top manufacturing industries after telephones in Vietnam. In 2013, Vietnam had approximately 6 thousand textile and apparel companies with 2.5 million workers. Due to the proposed Trans-Pacific Partne...
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What are some common internet challenges for foreign companies in China?
- October 2015
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Due to the Golden Shield Project in China, it is difficult for companies to access non-domestic websites. Internet speed is slow, connections are unstable and latency is high and technically, since there is a very small network bandwidth with China a...
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Why do internet challenges exist in China?
- October 2015
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Considering the fact that there are 668 million internet users by June 2015 in China, it is surprising to see that the penetration rate is only 48.8 percent and China has a limited amount of international bandwidth with countries overseas as well. In...
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What kind of popular services are not available in China?
- October 2015
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There are a lot of services that are not available in China including Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and many different foreign country based services. What makes it harder for foreign companies is that cloud file sharing platforms like Dropbox an...
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What are the three biggest ISPs in China and why are they creating regional mono...
- October 2015
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The three biggest ISPs in China are China Telecom, China Unicom and China Mobile. They are actually owned by the same state-owned company and are split according to physical location and scope. This is the main factor of monopoly creation across Chin...
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What are some solutions to internet problems in China?
- October 2015
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First of all, it is important to select the most suitable ISP according to location. Companies in North China should select China Unicom as their ISP, South China should select China Telecom and East China can select either of them based on the bandw...
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What is the national internet connection speed like in each province in China?
- October 2015
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The average broadband speed is 3.5mb/s in China, Beijing and Shanghai have the fastest internet connection speed out of all the provinces. Most of the provinces in East and South China have similar connection speed; however, Xinjiang, Qinghai, ...
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What is the current situation of the telephones and computers industry in Vietna...
- October 2015
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Since the boom of telephones and computers occurred in Vietnam, it led these industries to be ranked first and third in export value in the first seven months of 2015. The export value of telephones was 17.125 billion USD by July, 2015. Also, compute...
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