{"id":37812,"date":"2018-09-15T09:50:28","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T14:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37812"},"modified":"2018-09-15T09:50:28","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T14:50:28","slug":"russias-eastern-economic-forum-wrap-up-de-dollarization-tops-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37812","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s Eastern Economic Forum Wrap Up: De-Dollarization Tops Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" title=\"Russia\u2019s Eastern Economic Forum Wrap Up: De-Dollarization Tops Agenda\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/images\/news\/2018\/09\/15\/or-41400.jpg\" alt=\"Russia\u2019s Eastern Economic Forum Wrap Up: De-Dollarization Tops Agenda\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2018\/09\/15\/russia-eastern-economic-forum-wrap-up-de-dollarization-tops-agenda.html\">Russia\u2019s Eastern Economic Forum Wrap Up: De-Dollarization Tops Agenda<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<p>The Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) was held in Vladivostok on Sept.11-13. Founded in 2015, the event has become a platform for planning and launching projects to strengthen business ties in the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the EEF brought together delegations from over 60 countries to discuss the topic \u201cThe Far East: Expanding the Range of Possibilities&#8221;. A total of\u00a0100 business events involving over 6,000 participants were held during the three days. 1,357 media personnel worked to cover the forum. Last year, the number of participants was 5,000 with 1,000 media persons involved in reporting and broadcasting. The EEF-18 gathered 340 foreign and 383 Russian CEOs. Nearly 80 start-ups from across South-East Asia joined the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>This year, a total of 175 agreements worth of 2.9 trillion rubles (some $4.3 billion) were signed. For comparison, the sum was 2.5 trillion rubles (roughly $3.7 billion) in 2017. They included the development of the Baimsky ore deposits in Chukotka, the construction of a terminal for Novatek LNG at Bechevinskaya Bay in Kamchatka and the investment of Asian countries in Russia\u2019s agricultural projects in the Far East. Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Mail.Ru Group, Megafon and Chinese Alibaba inked an agreement on establishing AliExpress trade joint venture. Rosneft and Chinese CNPC signed an oil exploration agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese delegation was the largest (1,096 people), followed by the Japanese (570 members). The list of guests included the president of\u00a0Mongolia and prime ministers of\u00a0Japan and\u00a0South Korea. It was also the first time Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the event to meet his Russian counterpart. The issue of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5V0_bKa4jng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5V0_bKa4jng\">de-dollarization<\/a>\u00a0topped the agenda. Russia and\u00a0China\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.kremlin.ru\/events\/president\/news\/58528\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/en.kremlin.ru\/events\/president\/news\/58528\">reaffirmed<\/a>\u00a0their interest in\u00a0expanding the\u00a0use of\u00a0national currencies in\u00a0bilateral deals.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s Eastern Economic Forum Wrap Up: De-Dollarization Tops Agenda The Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) was held in Vladivostok on Sept.11-13. Founded in 2015, the event has become a platform for planning and launching projects to strengthen business ties in the Asia-Pacific region. This year, the EEF brought together delegations from over 60 countries to discuss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[19390,130,1025,21673,21672,694,8203,839],"class_list":["post-37812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-arkady-savitsky","tag-china","tag-de-dollarization","tag-eastern-economic-forum","tag-economic-forum","tag-russia","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-us-dollar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37813,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37812\/revisions\/37813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}