The myth of China joining TPP

In an interview with Inside Fashion, SMU Associate Professor of Law Henry Gao, who is also currently serving on the WTO Chairs Program advisory board, commented that "rules on competition, state-owned enterprises, e-commerce, intellectual property rights, government procurement, labour, etc in the [Trans-pacific Partnership (TPP)] agreements are much higher than China's current standards". He was commenting on the technical reasons as to why China did not have a seat at the TPP table.