The term 'Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership' often appears in the news in the context of the affairs of a group of countries known as
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Answer: B. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) was a free trade deal under negotiation in 2016 between the 10 ASEAN countries and six partners: India, China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand. It was signed in 2020 without India.
Watch for: China's big role in RCEP makes students link it to SCO.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Wrong because RCEP is not a G20 process.
- C. Wrong because SCO is not the grouping behind RCEP.
- D. Wrong because SAARC has its own SAFTA.
Source to check: Ministry of Commerce and Industry, RCEP negotiations page (commerce.gov.in); ASEAN Secretariat (asean.org)
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