Britain’s main opposition Labour party has called on the government to veto China’s bid to join a trans-Pacific trade agreement once the UK itself is admitted to the pact. The UK applied on Feb. 1 to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), a landmark 11-country trade deal that includes Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Mexico, Singapore, Vietnam, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, and Peru. China submitted an application for CPTPP membership on Sept. 16. Four days later, on Sept. 20, Taiwan also formally applied to join the pact. Talking at a session on foreign policy in the House of Commons on Tuesday, Labour’s shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said that China’s application leaves open the prospect that the UK might be “entering into preferential trade arrangements with countries who commit genocide.” British lawmakers had “made clear our view that what’s happening in Xinjiang constitutes genocide,” she said, referring …