China officially filed an application to join the CPTPP
Recently, the topic of CPTPP has become very popular and has often become a high-frequency vocabulary in the international media. The reason is that China’s Ministry of Commerce announced that on September 16, 2021. Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao has reported to CPTPP (China’s “Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership”) Relations Agreement), the depositary, New Zealand Minister of Trade and Export Growth O’Connor, who is in charge of administrative and documentation matters, submitted a written letter from China to formally apply to join the CPTPP.
China joins CPTPP Gaoming, and Western manufacturing is rushing. This move caught the White House by surprise!
In the past, there was no concept of CPTPP, only TPP. OES understands that during the Obama era, the Democratic Party’s government worked hard and deliberately won over a dozen countries including Japan and Australia to establish the TPP in order to promote the so-called economic globalization and at the same time achieve the goal of isolating the Chinese economy. Just before the completion, with Hillary Clinton losing to Trump in the 2016 presidential election, the agreement is in jeopardy. After an internal game, Trump announced that the U.S. government had withdrawn from the TPP agreement, leaving this huge plan to death. Since Trump withdrew from the TPP, the CPTPP has been dominated by Japan. Because Japan has also devoted a lot of effort to the TPP agreement and could not bear to waste this precious achievement, Japan subsequently wooed other countries to form the CPTPP agreement without the participation of the United States. Although the organization lacks the leader of the United States, it also includes The influence of Pacific Rim countries such as Australia, Singapore, Vietnam and Canada and New Zealand cannot be underestimated. However, as a country in a state of decline, the extent to which Japan can drive the development of the CPTPP organization is still unknown.
China has many difficulties in joining the CPTPP, Japan firmly opposes it, and Australia is used as a gunman by the United States.
As we all know, the TPP agreement led by Obama is a complete anti-China organization that excludes China's economic encirclement. OES understands. Since 2011, the US government has been advocating the so-called "return to the Asia-Pacific" strategy, because the United States has been deeply involved in the anti-terrorism battlefield for ten years, a lot of manpower and material resources were wasted on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Syria, especially in 2008 The financial crisis caused by the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis in 1988 further hit the U.S. economy. On the other hand, in China, because the decision-makers have always adhered to the principle of “concentrating on construction and single-minded development”, China’s economy has developed rapidly, and its comprehensive national strength has reached new heights. Especially in 2010, China’s economic aggregate surpassed Japan and became the world’s No. Second, it makes the United States feel more pressure, so the United States will announce its so-called return to the Asia-Pacific. The strategy of returning to the Asia-Pacific consists of two main components:
One is the military aspect. The U.S. military has continuously increased its military deployment in the Asia-Pacific region, especially in the surrounding areas of China, by reducing its deployment in the Middle East and deploying its forces in the Atlantic region, in an attempt to contain China’s development; the other is the encirclement of the economic field. Mainly represented by the TPP agreement. The agreement is composed of the United States as the core, Japan, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand and other US allies as the backbone, plus Vietnam, Singapore and other neighboring countries in China. The intention of the United States is very clear. It is to form an economic encirclement to contain China and impede China's economic development by putting pressure on China in terms of trade, tariffs, and technology transfer. It’s a pity that people did not wish. Trump defeated the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. He was worried that the TPP agreement would have a huge impact on the domestic industry. Trump announced the abolition of the TPP shortly after he took office. , So that the Chinese Chang sighed with relief. Without the participation of the United States, Japan has played down the anti-China color of CPTPP. The propaganda is lofty, open and inclusive, but it is still anti-China at its core. Because Japan’s ideas are the same as those of the United States, they all hope to establish their own economic exchange circle through the CPTPP agreement and hinder China’s economic development.
The reason why our country is willing to join the CPTPP is that the agreement can indeed promote cooperation in the economic and trade fields of various countries, and the terms in it are fairly reasonable. Sources said that after the United States withdrew from the TPP, the CPTPP rebuilt by Japan has been in a state of no leader for a long time. The entry of our country can better promote the economic development of the member states of the agreement. Many Western manufacturing industries are rushing to the mainland market. Joining CPTPP can better open up the market and strengthen cooperation between Eastern and Western countries. It can be said that the move of the Beijing authorities is very clever.
Now, China’s proposal to join has actually embarrassed Japan. If Japan refuses, the so-called "open and inclusive" is false propaganda. If China is allowed to join, it will be even worse. The leadership will definitely fall into China's hands. OES understands. Sure enough, after China announced its application to join the CPTPP agreement, many Japanese politicians came out to speak coldly. Among them, Japanese Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Taro Aso actually clamored "Has China reached the criteria for joining?" The inner world is disgusted with China's joining, and the possibility of Japan's rejection will not be ruled out in the future.
Now Japan is likely to restrict China's accession with some provisions on state-owned enterprises, but it doesn't matter. Anyway, we didn't expect to really join, so we will talk slowly. Of course, Japan also hopes to win over the United States to join the CPTPP agreement, but White House officials said that the United States will not return to the TPP because the 2022 midterm elections are coming soon. The Biden administration does not want to stimulate domestic voters at this time, otherwise it will lose votes to the Republican Party. Picked up a big deal.