Tai talks TRIPS waiver with allies as China gets behind it, GOP balks

Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect additional signatories to the GOP senators' letter, and to link to the final copy. Since announcing U.S. support for a proposed waiver of World Trade Organization intellectual property rules, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai has been making overtures to her holdout counterparts – including, on Wednesday, those from Japan and Switzerland – while proponents this week gained another high-profile backer in China. Meanwhile, Republicans in the U.S. continue to decry...