El proyecto sobre el Área de Libre Comercio de Asia Pacífico en la competencia Sino-Estadounidense

In the article, it is analyzed the recovery of the proposed apec Business Advisory Council on the Free Trade Area for the Asia Pacific (ftaap) by Xi Jinping, during the meeting of apec 2014; the issue is crucial for the immediate future of the Pacific region, as far as China's initiative goes beyond apec in the field of binding agreements while preserving apec as a mechanism for containment of the United States. In that sense, the text takes into account: a) The existing blatant contradiction between the Bogor Goals based on the “open regionalism” and the preferential trade agreement based on rules that benefit the signatories, hurting nonparticipants. b) The political context of the forum, determined by the political weakness of the Obama administration, resulting from the last legislative elections, and the critical situation in which are the major advanced economies. c) The details of the Chinese mark on the ftaap project.