Commentary
How naïve. It was reported last week that the Business Council of Australia (BCA) and the Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) were open to China joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
The CPTTP is a trade agreement established in 2018 between 11 Pacific nations including Australia.
China is the next application to be considered after Britain ­became the first new member to join the trading bloc, lifting its membership to 12.
A unanimous Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade Committee report has already recommended that Australia not support China’s accession until it ended coercive trade measures. It also supported the inclusion of Taiwan in the agreement….