China, Taiwan, the UK and the CPTPP

Originally called the Trans-Pacific Partnership until the USA withdrew in 2017, the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) is an ambitious and wide-ranging free trade agreement between eleven Pacific countries. Far from faltering after US withdrawal, several more countries have since applied to join, including China, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. Some observers see in this a contest between China and the USA for wider influence through an attempt to control or re-write the rules of international trade; at a minimum accession by any of the three would have a major impact on the CPTPP as originally envisaged. This edited volume considers the three applications, the motivations for the three to join, and the likely responses of existing members. The implications for cross-Strait tension between China and Taiwan are fully considered, as is the ability or willingness of the USA to influence the outcome of the applications.

Explores the politics of the CPTPP Provides insight into free trade agreements in Asia Analyzes how trade intersects with geopolitics

Auteur
Chun-Yi Lee is Associate Professor in the School of Politics and InternationalRelations, and director of the Taiwan Research Hub at the University of Nottingham. Her book Taiwanese Business or Chinese Security Asset was published in 2011, her current work: Sticky decoupling? Geopolitics and semiconductor supply chain, is in preparation.

Michael Reilly is a Senior Fellow in the Taiwan Research Hub at the University of Nottingham and an Advisory Board member of the Global Taiwan Institute. His latest book, The Great Free Trade Myth: British Foreign Policy and East Asia Since 1980, was published in 2020.

Contenu

Chapter 1 Sometimes international diplomacy is so inept that it becomes genuinely entertaining. Recent US trade policy is a case in point.- Chapter 2 CPTPP membership for Taiwan: rationales, challenges, and outlook.- Chapter 3 Not a Fast Pass for China at CPTPP.- Chapter 4 Regulatory Constraints and the Political Economy of the UK's Joining the CPTPP.- Chapter 5 Perspectives of CPTPP Membership Expansion and Its Implications on a Shifting Paradigm of Economic Integration in Asia Pacific.- Chapter 6 Australia's Perspective on the Applications from the UK, China and Taiwan to join the CPTPP.- Chapter 7 Gatekeeper's Dilemma: Japan facing CPTPP applications from China and Taiwan.- Chapter 8 Divergent interests for Taiwan's CPTPP bid from Washington and Tokyo.- Chapter 9 Not Quite Déjà Vu All Over Again: CPTPP Accession and Taiwan-China-US Relations. <p