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Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America's First Pacific Century (2020) online; also see online scholarly review of this book; Cullather, Nick (1994). Illusions of influence: the political economy of United States-Philippines relations, 1942–1960. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-2280-3. De Castro, Renato Cruz.
Since 2012, the company began a series of consolidation of assets belonging to Tan by acquiring interests in Asia Brewery, Inc., Fortune Tobacco Corporation, Eton Properties Philippines, Inc. (Paramount LandEquities, Inc. and Saturn Land Holdings, Inc.), Philippine National Bank, Allied Banking Corporation and Victorias Milling Company. [5] [6] [7]
The San Francisco System (also known as the "Hub and Spokes" architecture) is a network of alliances pursued by the United States in the Asia-Pacific region, after the end of World War II [1] – the United States as a "hub", and Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, Australia, and New Zealand as "spokes". [2]
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), or Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), was a proposed trade agreement between 12 Pacific Rim economies: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, and the United States. In the United States, the proposal was signed on 4 February 2016 but not ...
Countries participating in IPEF are Australia, Brunei, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam. All ...
The current twelve members have combined economies representing 14.4 percent of global gross domestic product, at approximately US$15.8 trillion as of 2024, [5] making the CPTPP one of the world's largest free trade areas by GDP, along with the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement, the European single market, [6] and the Regional ...
In the wake of the 2006 summit, economist C. Fred Bergsten advocated a Free Trade Agreement of Asia-Pacific, including the United States amongst the proposed parties to any agreement at that time. [41] His ideas convinced the APEC Business Advisory Council to support this concept.
The Biden administration has vowed to continue negotiating an ambitious Asia trade deal, but election-year pressures and resistance to tough commitments from some countries make a deal unlikely ...