China Trade & Tech

What’s the big idea? China, according to its chief international trade representative, expects the 11 members of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement on Trans-Pacific Partnership to support its bid to join the Asia-Pacific trade pact. The argument, as Wang Shouwen laid out to reporters earlier this week, is simple: China’s inclusion would triple the number of consumers covered by the pact, increase total GDP coverage by 1.5 times and provide a sizeable boost to the income of CPTPP’s members. “Therefore,...