{"id":1385,"date":"2021-09-17T09:48:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T09:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1385"},"modified":"2021-09-17T09:48:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T09:48:39","slug":"china-applies-to-join-key-asia-pacific-trade-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1385","title":{"rendered":"China applies to join key Asia-Pacific trade pact"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lead\">\n<p>China has applied to join a key Asia-Pacific trade pact as it attempts to strengthen its position in the region.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The move comes the day after a historic security deal between the US, UK and Australia in the region was unveiled.<\/p>\n<p>The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, created by the US, is thought to have been designed to counter China\u2019s influence.<\/p>\n<p>However, former President Donald Trump pulled the US out of it in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese commerce minister says the world\u2019s second-largest economy has submitted its application to join the free trade agreement in a letter to New Zealand\u2019s trade minister.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand acts as the administrative centre for the pact.<\/p>\n<p>-BBC<\/p>\n<div id=\"fbc-sl\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has applied to join a key Asia-Pacific trade pact as it attempts to strengthen its position in the region. The move comes the day after a historic security deal between the US, UK and Australia in the region was unveiled. The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, created by the US, is thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,177],"tags":[59,197],"class_list":["post-1385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-featured","tag-world-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1387,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions\/1387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}