Trans-Pacific trade pact works best without China

Negotiating entry for China would face numerous obstacles. Most democratic governments deplore how Xi Jinping’s increasingly totalitarian regime treats workers, farmers, Hong Kongers, Tibetans, Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, Christians, and other communities outrageously.

An enlarged CPTPP without China, led by Chinese President Xi Jinping, pictured, is undoubtedly the best choice for the democracies in Asia and beyond, write David Kilgour and David Matas.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY DAVID KILGOUR AND DAVID MATAS

October 6, 2021

A major goal of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), intended to cover about 40 per cent of world trade, was to ensure that rule of law nations, not China, would write the rules for the world economy in the 21st century. The Obama...

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