By Vandita Agrawal A day after the United States, United Kingdom and Australia announced a new Asia-focused security pact last month, China quietly dropped a diplomatic bombshell of its own. Declaring a desire to join the 11-member, $13.5-trillion trans-Pacific trade bloc designed by former U.S. President Barack H. Obama’s administration to counter China’s economic influence — but abandoned by President […]

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