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> Britain has joined the 11-member strong Asia-Pacific trade bloc that includes Japan and Australia after nearly two years of negotiations.

> Some trade experts said joining the CPTPP bloc would harm the UK's ability to rejoin the EU at a later date, arguing that harmonising trade rules with the CPTPP countries would drive a wedge between Brussels and London.

> Allowing secret courts to govern trade disputes between CPTPP members and the UK is expected to spark protests similar to those that helped scupper trade talks between the EU and Washington in 2016.

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So they're trying a long distance thing?

Grandma left her old neighborhood and moved in with her children.

You know where else they had access to 500 million people?

It's payback for Australia joining Eurovision.

Time those little good fer nuthin’ scallywags helped out poor old granny… now send me cheap weeb stuff and beer, things are gonna get weird 🇬🇧 🇦🇺 🇯🇵

Nice. Taiwan next.

EU - Supranational

CPTPP - Intergovernmental

There is a massive difference between the pair of them though. We could always just ignore that fact.

The EU and CPTPP are entirely different things. One is a trade organisation, the other is a supranational political bloc looking to make itself into a federated superstate.

This was a very common joke back at my international university when I lived in Japan in 2016...

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