development mean for large emerging markets such as China and India that are on the fringes of these regional trade negotiations … multilateral trading system as promulgated by the WTO, and the implications for China and India. The paper analyses the new …-RTAs will not be entirely benign in their impact on China and India, rather than forcing these economies to accept the higher …

financially than the Chinese economy, but China seems to be catching up with India in the wake of the global financial crisis …