The summit was backed by Citizens United, the conservative activist group that won a liberalisation of campaign finance limits at the US supreme court in 2010.
They include freezing EU-Russia negotiations on visa liberalisation and a new agreement governing EU-Russia relations.
Xi has appeared conciliatory in public, telling the state news agency Xinhua on Monday that the new trade liberalisation plan "does not go against existing free trade arrangements which are potential pathways to realise FTAAP's goals".
Russian President Vladimir Putin is keen to draw other former Soviet republics into the Eurasian union, but Shushkevich says that real economic development would come from liberalisation of the Belarus economy, 80% of which is still in state hands.
A variant of this dynamic can be seen in Russia and many parts of eastern Europe and central Asia, where the fall of the Berlin Wall did not usher in democracy, economic liberalisation, and rapid output growth.
Related: Ireland's gay marriage referendum – the Guardian briefing The liberalisation of Church policy is described as allowing individual congregations to opt out of traditional church teaching – by appointing gay ministers – rather than requiring all churches to follow the same policy.
Since Vietnam's Doi Moi (renovation) policies of economic liberalisation began in 1986, its capital Hanoi has undergone multiple massive transformations.
For Germans, liberalisation comes in more subtle ways, such as the new dispensation for universities and libraries, which will henceforth be allowed to upload "orphaned" works of art on to the internet without permission.
For the past 14 years, the G7 has said it will spare no effort to complete the Doha round of trade liberalisation.
I fought, sometimes mistakenly against elements of her agenda, including some of her economic liberalisation agenda, but there's no question that she was one of the great prime ministers of our century.
Berdymukhamedov, who was formerly a dentist and then became Niyazov's health minister, presided over a very gradual liberalisation when he first came to power after Niyazov's death, reversing some of the late president's more eccentric decrees.
