China could seek EU investment deal, CPTTP membership in new trade talks

China’s newly launched trade talks with a range of partners from Vietnam to the European Union could allow it to revive long-stalled efforts to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership or sign an EU investment deal scuttled by the European Parliament in 2021, analysts said this week. During an April 14 panel discussion hosted by the Brookings Institution on “Global responses to an American reset of international trade,” analysts said that China is using the growing tension...