The United States wants to use the negotiations to counter Chinese influence in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
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The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement prevents signatories from tightening regulations, except in specified sectors — and aged care hasn’t been named as one of those exceptions.
The recently signed RCEP trade agreement encourages even closer ties with China, but this puts New Zealand’s long-term interests at risk.
Australia and other governments refused to release the text until after it was signed on Sunday. It’ll do little for Australian trade.
As world trade breaks down into a patchwork of regional blocs, it raises questions about the future of global multinationals.
We are about to go from having rules that overreached to having few rules. The US, China and the EU will be able to act with impunity.
The biggest barrier to Australia and much of the rest of the world signing up to the world’s biggest trading bloc appears to have been removed.
Illegality doesn’t matter when you’ve kneecapped the umpire who would have enforced the rules.
Trump is trying to shape the US as a power in Asia and block China in the process, using techniques familiar to Beijing.
Australia’s prime location and Asia’s growing demand make it unlikely that there will be less foreign demand for our gas.
The TPP should still bring enough benefits for the remaining countries to make it worthwhile to go through the trouble of enacting it.
The TPP can’t go ahead in any form, so its time the Australian government lets it go.
It seems in the current global turbulence multilateral trade deals are dead, long live bilateral agreements.
A stalled Trans-Pacific Partnership opens the way for China, which was excluded from the agreement, to assume leadership in regional economic integration efforts in the Asia-Pacific.
If Beijing can bring its neighbours to accept its regional leadership, China would have successfully achieved a dramatic reduction of US influence.
Australia should look to India rather than the US Congress to secure its next regional trade win.
If the United States doesn’t ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership, China will be more likely to succeed with its own trade agreement.
Ten years on from the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement, Australia is entering another round of negotiations towards the new and controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership. This is the first article in the…
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