India Rejects Joining World’s Largest Trade Deal Due to China’s Non-Transparent Practices

‘RCEP did not reflect the aspirations of our small and micro medium industries,’ India’s minister of commerce said.

Toys are displayed inside a Chinese toy shop at a market in Kolkata, India, on Oct. 11, 2017. Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters

India has ruled out joining the China-led Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) as the Chinese communist regime is “non-transparent” and its practices are “completely different from what the democratic world wants.”

“India is not going to join the RCEP because neither did it reflect the guiding principles on which ASEAN was started, nor is it in the nation’s interest to do a free trade agreement with China,” India’s Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal told CNBC on Sept. 22.