Why Singapore should push for China's stake in TPP

AS a founding member of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and a price-taker in world affairs, Singapore needs to help other members see that the TPP could bring a more stable Pacific order and beyond - provided that China has a meaningful stake in it.

This year's Strategic and Economic Dialogue was one of the most important bilateral forums between the United States and China, despite expectations of yielding little concrete results. The US had vowed not to "paper over" tenuous issues such as climate change, cyber spying and tensions i…