Japan pushes for TRIPS plus commitments in a regional FTA; Médecins Sans Frontières raises an alarm

While PM Modi’s visit to Japan has been hailed as a huge success, especially after getting Japan to invest 35 billion dollars in India over the the next five years, it was only in the previous month at an entirely separate forum (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)) that Japan threw a potential spanner in the works by pushing for TRIPS plus provisions in the RCEP negotiation rounds held in Singapore.  However, PM Modi during his Japan visit expressed a general...