Free Trade Agreements from the Perspective of ASEAN and Malaysia
Juita Mohamad is the director of the Economics and Business Unit and the director of research at IDEAS. This piece was written for Perry World House’s 2023 workshop “Economic Security and the Future of the Global Order in the Indo-Pacific.
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