China has applied to join the 11-member Asia-Pacific trade pact that includes Australia, Canada, Japan and Singapore, all of whom have a veto on new membership.
Australia and other members can help lock China into new rules and reforms that entrench the market and constrain behaviour. China’s trade coercion against Australia should be resolved as part of the accession process, not used to stymie the strategic opportunity.
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Shiro Armstrong is a professor and director of the Australia–Japan Research Centre at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University.
