Why is Malaysia still committed to the CPTPP fraud?

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In more normal circumstances, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement would be dead and buried by now after President Trump announced US withdrawal immediately after his inauguration in January 2017. All major US presidential candidates in the last election, even Hillary Clinton, had opposed the TPP. However, the Japanese, Australian and Singapore governments have kept the TPP alive, first by mooting TPP11, i.e., minus the US, later relabelled the Comprehensive and Progressive TPP (CPTPP). Other governments have remained ‘on board’ for reasons of their own, mainly due to foreign policy considerations, rather than with serious expectations of economic benefits. The CPTPP did not even get rid of the most onerous TPP provisions, but only suspended some intellectual property (IP) and other provisions, mainly of interest to the US. These can easily be reincluded to bring the US…