MYSTERIOUS: 2 | Mind Blowing Facts

Volodymyr Zelenskiy discusses peace plan, Nato and grain deal with Erdoğan in Turkey – as it happened

Ukraine president meets with Turkish leader after summits across Europe

The Guardian - AU · Jul 7, 2023

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 458 of the invasion

Toll from Russian missile attack on Dnipro rises to two; Medvedev says conflict could last decades; Blinken to visit Finland, Sweden and Norway

The Guardian - AU · May 27, 2023

Canada backs Ukraine's application to join trans-Pacific trade pact

(This May 26 story has been corrected to remove 'United States' as one of the CPTPP countries mentioned in the last sentence)

Reuters · May 26, 2023

Australia’s barley solution with China shows diplomacy does work

The agreement between Australia and China to resolve a dispute over Chinese tariffs on Australian barley without World Trade Organization (WTO) adjudication is evidence of a distinct improvement in relations.

The Conversation · Apr 17, 2023

Predicted 0.08% boost from UK-Asia trade deal could be overestimate

Trade department used different approach to estimating economic boost which ‘generates larger estimated GDP impacts’

The Independent UK · Apr 10, 2023

Why Britain’s new CPTPP trade deal will not make up for Brexit

The UK recently announced that it will join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), giving British businesses access to the 11 other members of the Indo-Pacific trade bloc and bringing its combined GDP to £11 trillion.

The Conversation · Apr 6, 2023

CPTPP: is trade deal first sign of Brexit’s sunlit uplands?

The Government struck a deal to join an 11-member Asia-Pacific trade bloc last week, a step hailed by No. 10 as an example of Britain seizing its “post-Brexit freedoms”. 

The Week · Apr 5, 2023

Pacific trade deal ‘will make mockery of UK’s climate ambitions’

CPTPP membership will result in more deforestation and endanger animal welfare, say campaigners

The Guardian - UK · Apr 3, 2023

Pacific trade deal is more useful to Joe Biden than it is to the UK’s economy

Hailed by Tory MPs as a Brexit benefit, CPTPP membership actually turns the UK into a willing pawn in Washington’s geopolitical game

The Guardian - UK · Apr 1, 2023

China cannot be allowed to join UK-Asia trade pact, Liz Truss says

The former prime minister made the warning as the UK signed up to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.

The Independent UK · Mar 31, 2023