Alicia Garcia-Herrero is Asia-Pacific chief economist at Natixis and a senior research fellow at Bruegel, a Brussels-based think tank.
Why rush a deal that is so inherently complex?


Xi Jinping waves during a video conference with European leaders from Beijing on Dec. 30: the deal amounts to so little. © Xinhua/AP
Alicia Garcia-Herrero is Asia-Pacific chief economist at Natixis and a senior research fellow at Bruegel, a Brussels-based think tank.