Opinion: Marginal Benefit of RCEP Is Greater Than CPTPP

Tu Xinquan is dean and professor of the China Institute for WTO Studies, University of International Business and Economics, in Beijing

The features of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) affect countries from highly developed stages to least developed and can fit flexibly with them all. These qualities can be certainly found in many other agreements and cannot be regarded as unique, although the diversity in the RCEP is more notable.