Trans-Pacific Partnership

JAPAN, Australia and other members of a trans-Pacific trade pact have asked Britain to reconsider tariff conditions in its entry negotiation talks, Jiji news reported on Monday.

And China is not invited

ALTHOUGH Chinese President Xi Jinping announced his decision to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) last November, Beijing's formal application last ...

[TAIPEI] China's restrictive practices present fundamental problems for its application to join a major pan-Pacific free trade pact, and if it joins before Taiwan there is a risk it could block their ...

Signed by 11 Apac countries in 2018, CPTPP is region's biggest free trade pact; US-led deal designed to keep China, which has its own regional trade deal, locked out

[TAIPEI] There is a "risk" to Taiwan's application to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) if China joins first, Taiwan's government said on Thursday,...

[TAIPEI] Taiwan has applied to join a major trans-Pacific trade deal, officials confirmed Thursday, days after China said it also wanted to become a member of the agreement.

Who can blame them? Beijing applying to join the TPP is the diplomatic equivalent of the US asking to be a member of China's 'Belt and Road' initiative in Asia.

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