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China and the TPP

The East Asia Forum ponders China’s potential participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a multilateral trade pact which the United States and a lineup of eight other nations have proposed to join, and the need for China to help set the rules rather than try to sign up once the agreement is fully baked: As the major growth engine of the global economy, China’s exclusion from the TP