The increasingly important role of the Asia-Pacific Region is an undisputed fact. In light of that, how will relations between the East and West pan out? A key discussion on this topic took place during SPIEF 2015 in a session entitled ‘The making of the Asia-pacific century: rebalancing the East’.

This edition of the series of trade and development reports published annually by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) studies the impact of trade wars on the global rates of economic growth, the problem of shrinking investments, and the decreasing predictability, with an added focus on financing ecologically sustainable projects.

Minister for the development of the Russian Far East and Arctic Alexei Chekunkov speaks about new opportunities offered by the far east in an evolving world, the impact of the pandemic, and an elite force of management personnel