Asia’s premier trade pact needs stronger foundations
CPTPP is growing, but first it must mature
WHEN DONALD TRUMP pulled America out of the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) five years ago, analysts and economists busied themselves writing obituaries for what was to have been the world’s biggest free-trade deal. The United States accounted for nearly two-thirds of the incipient bloc’s GDP, and had done most of the diplomatic heavy lifting.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Littoral, but not serious enough”
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