China, Taiwan, the UK and the CPTPP

Chun-Yi Lee is Associate Professor in the School of Politics and InternationalRelations, and director of the Taiwan Research Hub at the University of Nottingham. Her book Taiwanese Business or Chinese Security Asset was published in 2011, her current work: Sticky decoupling? Geopolitics and semiconductor supply chain, is in preparation.Michael Reilly is a Senior Fellow in the Taiwan Research Hub at the University of Nottingham and an Advisory Board member of the Global Taiwan Institute. His latest book, The Great Free Trade Myth: British Foreign Policy and East Asia Since 1980, was published in 2020.

• Chapter 1 Sometimes international diplomacy is so inept that it becomes genuinely entertaining. Recent US trade policy is a case in point.- Chapter 2 CPTPP membership for Taiwan: rationales, challenges, and outlook.- Chapter 3 Not a Fast Pass for China at CPTPP.- Chapter 4 Regulatory Constraints and the Political Economy of the UK's Joining the CPTPP.- Chapter 5 Perspectives of CPTPP Membership Expansion and Its Implications on a Shifting Paradigm of Economic Integration in Asia Pacific.- Chapter 6 Australia’s Perspective on the Applications from the UK, China and Taiwan to join the CPTPP.- Chapter 7 Gatekeeper's Dilemma: Japan facing CPTPP applications from China and Taiwan.- Chapter 8 Divergent interests for Taiwan’s CPTPP bid from Washington and Tokyo.- Chapter 9 Not Quite Déjà Vu All Over Again: CPTPP Accession and Taiwan-China-US Relations.